Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A really good example of early American cookery and pastry making. This book is broken up into three separate parts: 'Part The First' has puddings, custards and creams; 'Part The Second' has cakes, biscuits and gingerbread; 'Part The Third' has jellies and preserves. The Appendix has savory recipes like oyster patties and collared pork, and recipes for cordials and ginger beer. The last two recipes are interesting - Tomata (not a typo) Ketchup, and homemade yeast made with hops.
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SEVENTY-FIVE RECEIPTS FOR PASTRY CAKES, AND SWEETMEATS
BY MISS LESLIE, OF PHILADELPHIA.
1832
PREFACE.
The following Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, are original, and have been used by the author and many of her friends with uniform success. They are drawn up in a style so plain and minute, as to be perfectly intelligible to servants, and persons of the most moderate capacity. All the ingredients, with their proper quantities, are enumerated in a list at the head of each receipt, a plan which will greatly facilitate the business of procuring and preparing the requisite articles.
There is frequently much difficulty in following directions in English and French Cookery Books, not only from their want of explicitness, but from the difference in the fuel, fire-places, and cooking utensils, generally used in Europe and America; and many of the European receipts are, so complicated and laborious, that our female cooks are afraid to undertake the arduous task of making any thing from them.
The receipts in this little book are, in every sense of the word, American; but the writer flatters herself that (if exactly followed) the articles produced from them will not be found inferior to any of a similar description made in the European manner. Experience has proved, that pastry, cakes, &c. prepared precisely according to these directions will not fail to be excellent: but where economy is expedient, a portion of the seasoning, that is, the spice, wine, brandy, rosewater, essence of lemon, &c. may be omitted without any essential deviation of flavour, or difference of appearance; retaining, however, the given proportions of eggs, butter, sugar, and flour.
But if done at home, and by a person that can be trusted, it will be proved, on trial, that any of these articles may be made in the best and most liberal manner at one half of the cost of the same articles supplied by a confectioner. And they will be found particularly useful to families that live in the country or in small towns, where nothing of the kind is to be purchased.
CONTENTS.
PART THE FIRST.
Preliminary Remarks
Puff Paste
Common Paste
Mince Pies
Plum Pudding
Lemon Pudding
Orange Pudding
Cocoa Nut Pudding
Almond Pudding
A Cheesecake
Sweet Potato Pudding
Pumpkin Pudding
Gooseberry Pudding
Baked Apple Pudding
Fruit Pies
Oyster Pie
Beef Steak Pie
Indian Pudding
Batter Pudding
Bread Pudding
Rice Pudding
Boston Pudding
Fritters
Fine Custards
Plain Custards
Rice Custard
Cold Custards
Curds and Whey
A Trifle
Whipt Cream
Floating Island
Ice Cream
Calf's Feet Jelly
Blanc-mange
PART THE SECOND
General directions
Queen Cake
Pound Cake
Black Cake, or Plum Cake
Sponge Cake
Almond Cake
French Almond Cake
Maccaroons
Apees
Jumbles
Kisses
Spanish Buns
Rusk
Indian Pound Cake
Cup Cake
Loaf Cake
Sugar Biscuits
Milk Biscuits
Butter Biscuits
Gingerbread Nuts
Common Gingerbread
La Fayette Gingerbread
A Dover Cake
Crullers
Dough Nuts
Waffles
Soft Muffins
Indian Batter Cakes
Flannel Cakes
Rolls
PART THE THIRD
General directions
Apple Jelly
Red Currant Jelly
Black Currant Jelly
Gooseberry Jelly
Grape Jelly
Peach Jelly
Preserved Quinces
Preserved Pippins
Preserved Peaches
Preserved Crab-Apples
Preserved Plums
Preserved Strawberries
Preserved Cranberries
Preserved Pumpkin
Preserved Pine-Apple
Raspberry Jam
APPENDIX.
Miscellaneous Receipts
As all families are not provided with scales and weights, referring to the ingredients generally used in cakes and pastry, we subjoin a list of weights and measures.
WEIGHT AND MEASURE
Wheat flour one pound is one quart.
Indian meal one pound, two ounces, is one quart.
Butter—when soft one pound is one quart.
Loaf-sugar, broken one pound is one quart.
White sugar, powdered one pound, one ounce, is one quart.
Eggs ten eggs are one pound.
LIQUID MEASURE
Sixteen large table-spoonfuls are half a pint.
Eight large table-spoonfuls are one gill.
Four large table-spoonfuls are half a gill.
A common-sized tumbler holds half a pint.
A common-sized wine-glass half a gill.
Allowing for accidental differences in the quality, freshness, dryness, and moisture of the articles, we believe this comparison between weight and measure, to be nearly correct as possible.
PART THE FIRST.
PASTRY
The eggs should not be beaten till after all the other ingredients are ready, as they will fail very soon. If the whites and yolks are to be beaten separately, do the whites first, as they will stand longer.
Eggs should be beaten in a broad shallow pan, spreading wide at the top. Butter and sugar should be stirred in a deep pan with straight sides.
Break every egg by itself, in a saucer, before you put it into the pan, that in case there should be any bad ones, they may not spoil the others.
Eggs are beaten most expeditiously with rods. A small quantity of white of egg may be beaten with a knife, or a three-pronged fork.
There can be no positive rules as to the exact time of baking each article. Skill in baking is the result of practice, attention, and experience. Much, of course, depends on the state of the fire, and on the size of the things to be baked, and something on the thickness of the pans or dishes.
If you bake in a stove, put some bricks in the oven part to set the pans or plates on, and to temper the heat at the bottom. Large sheets of iron, without sides, will be found very useful for small cakes, and to put under the pans or plates.
PUFF PASTE.
Half a pound and two ounces of sifted flour.
Half a pound of the best fresh butter—washed.
A little cold water.
This will make puff-paste for two Puddings, or for one soup-plate Pie, or for four small Shells.
Weigh half a pound and two ounces of flour, and sift it through a hair-sieve into a large deep dish. Take out about one fourth of the flour, and lay it aside on one corner of your pasteboard, to roll and sprinkle with.
Wash, in cold water, half a pound of the best fresh butter.
Squeeze it hard with your hands and make it up into a round lump.
Divide it in four equal parts; lay them on one side of your
paste-board, and have ready a glass of cold water.
Cut one of the four pieces of butter into the pan of flour. Cut it as small as possible. Wet it gradually with a very little water (too much water will make it tough) and mix it well with the point of a large case-knife. Do not touch it with your hands. When the dough gets into a lump, sprinkle on the middle of the board some of the flour that you laid aside, and lay the dough upon it, turning it out of the pan with the knife.