RECIPES

Apple cheesecakes

Ingredients for 18 cheesecakes:

Sufficient apples to make 1/2 lb when cooked, 1/4 lb of sifted sugar, 1/4 lb of butter, 4 eggs, the rind and the juice of 1 lemon, puff paste.

Average cost 1s, 8d.

Pare, core and boil the apples to a pulp; add to these sugar, the butter, which should be melted, the eggs, leaving out 2 of the whites, and the grated rind and juice of the lemon; stir well, line some patty pans with puff paste; fill them with the mixture, and bake about 20 minutes.

Apricot Wine

Ingredients:

12lbs of ripe apricots, 6 oz of loaf sugar to every quart of liquor

Average cost when the fruit is in full season, 1s.per quart

Wipe the apricots, cut them in pieces, and let them boil in two gallons of water. After boiling up let them simmer till the liquor is strongly impregnated with the flavour of the fruit. Strain through a hair-sieve and put 6 oz. of sugar to every quart of liquor. Boil up again, skim very carefully , and as soon as no more scum appears, put it into an earthen pan. Bottle the following day if the wine is quite clear, and put a lump of sugar into each bottle. It should be fine in 6 months.

Make this in August or September.

Tea-Cakes, Small

Ingredients for 12 cakes:

2 teacupfuls of flour, one of ground rice,one of moist sugar, 2 oz of lard, 2 oz of butter, 2 eggs, lemon flavouring.

Average cost, 8d.

Melt the lard and butter, beat them well, and add to the flour and rice; next add the eggs and sugar, beating all well together, with a flavouring of essence and lemon, and bake in cakes on a tin in a quick oven.

Time - 15 minutes.

Seasonable at any time.

Bread, Rice

Ingredients for 3 medium-sized loaves:

4 lbs of wheat flour, 1 lb of rice, 3 tablespoonfuls of yeast, 1/4 oz of salt.

Average cost, 10d.

Boil the rice till quite tender; pour off the water, and put the rice warm to the flour; mix well together with the yeast, salt and sufficient warm water to make the whole into a smooth dough; let it rise by the side of the flour, then make into loaves, which bake from 1 1/2 to 2 hours, according to the size. An improvement upon this bread is made by boiling the rice in milk, in which case it should be mixed with the flour without straining.

Time - 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Chicken, Curried

Ingredients:

The remains of cold roast fowls, 2 large onions, 1 apple, 2 oz of butter, 1 dessertspoonful of curry powder, 1 teaspoonful of flour, 1/2 pint of gravy, 1 tablespoonful of lemon-juice.

Average cost, exclusive of the fowl, 7d.

Slice the onions, peel, core and chop the apple, and cut the fowl into neat joints; fry these in the butter of a nice brown, then add the curry-powder, flour and gravy, and stew for about 20 minutes. Put in the lemon-juice, an serve with boiled rice, either placed in a ridge round the dish or separately. Two or three shalots or a little garlic may be added, if approved.

Time: Altogether, 1/2 hour.

Seasonable in winter.

Pudding, Cold.

Ingredients for 6 persons:

4 eggs, 1 pint of milk, sugar to taste, a little grated lemon-rinds, 2 oz of raisins, 4 tablespoonfuls of marmelade, a few slices of sponge-cake.

Average cost, 1s.

Sweeten the milk with lump sugar, add a little grated lemon-rind, and stir to this the eggs, which should be well-whisked; line a buttered mould with the raisins, stoned and cut in half; spread the slices of cake with the marmelade and place them in the mould and then pour in the custard, tie the pudding down with paper and a cloth, and boil gently for 1 hour; when cold, turn it out, and serve.

Time: 1 hour.

Seasonable at any time.