The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

96/172

(debug: view other mode)

The image contains the following text:

Of Custards, Jellies, Preserving, <Sfc. goes to the oven. Either put iu currants or caraway seeds, and bake it in a quick oven. Make it in two cakes. They will take an hour and a half baking. To make Buns. Take two pounds of Hour, a pint of ale yeast, put a little sack in the yeast, and three eggs beaten, knead all together with a little warm milk, nut- meg, and salt, and lay it before the fire till it rises very light, then knead in a pound of fresh butter, a pound of rough caraway comfits, and bake them in a quick oven in what shape you please, on floured paper. OF CUSTARDS, JELLIES, PRESERVING, &c. Plain Custards. Take a quart of new milk, sweeten to your taste, grate in a little nutmeg, beat up eight eggs, leave out half the whites, beat them up well, stir them into the milk, and bake it in china basons, or put them in a deep china dish ; have a kettle of water boil- ing, set the cup in, let the water come above half way, but do not let it boil too fast, for fear of its getting in the cups. You may add a little rose-water. Calf's Foot Jelly. Boil two calf’s feet in a gallon of water till it comes to a quart, strain it, let it stand till cold, skim off the fat, and take the jelly up clean. If there is any settling in the bottom, leave it; put the jelly in a saucepan, with a pint of mountain wdne, half a pound of loaf sugar, the juice of four large lemons; beat up six or eight whites of eggs with a whisk, then put them in a saucepan, and stir all together till it boils. Let it boil a few minutes. Have ready a large flannel bag, ponr it in, it will run through quick, pour it in again till it rnns clear, then have ready a large china bason, with the lemon-peels cut as thin as possible, let the jelly run into that bason, and the peels both give it a fine amber colour, and also a flavour : with a clean silver spoon fill :the glasses t