Modern cookery for private families by Eliza Acton

CHAPTER XXVI.

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CAKES. Page General Remarks on Cakes 540 To blanch and to pound Almonds 542 To reduce Almonds to a Paste 542 (_the quickest and easiest way_) To colour Almonds or 542 Sugar-grains, or Sugar-candy, for Cakes or Pastry To prepare Butter for rich 543 Cakes To whisk Eggs for light rich 543 Cakes Sugar Glazings and Icings, for 543 fine Cakes and Pastry Orange-Flower Macaroons 544 (_delicious_) Almond Macaroons 544 Very fine Cocoa-nut Macaroons 545 Imperials (_not very rich_) 545 Fine Almond Cake 545 Plain Pound or Currant Cake 546 (or rich Brawn Brack or Borrow Brack) Rice Cake 546 White Cake 546 A good Sponge Cake 547 A smaller Sponge Cake (_very 547 good_) Fine Venetian Cake or Cakes 547 A good Madeira Cake 548 A _Solimemne_ (a rich French 549 breakfast cake, or Sally Lunn) Banbury Cakes 549 _Meringues_ 550 Italian _Meringues_ 551 Thick, light Gingerbread 551 Acton Gingerbread 552 Cheap and very good Ginger 552 Oven-cake or Cakes Good common Gingerbread 553 Richer Gingerbread 553 Cocoa-nut Gingerbread 553 (_original receipts_) Delicious Cream Cake and Sweet 554 Rusks A good light Luncheon-cake and 554 Brawn Brack A very cheap Luncheon-biscuit, 555 or Nursery-cake Isle of Wight Dough-nuts 556 Queen Cakes 556 Jumbles 556 A good Soda Cake 556 Good Scottish Short-bread 557 A _Galette_ 557 Small Sugar Cakes of various 558 kinds Fleed, or Flead Cakes 558 Light Buns of different kinds 559 Exeter Buns 559 Threadneedle-street Biscuits 560 Plain Dessert Biscuits and 560 Ginger Biscuits Good Captain’s Biscuits 560 The Colonel’s Biscuits 561 Aunt Charlotte’s Biscuits 561 Excellent Soda Buns 561

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I. 3. CHAPTER II. 4. Chapter VI.) 5. CHAPTER III. 6. CHAPTER IV. 7. CHAPTER V. 8. CHAPTER VI. 9. CHAPTER VII. 10. CHAPTER VIII. 11. CHAPTER IX. 12. CHAPTER X. 13. CHAPTER XI. 14. CHAPTER XII. 15. CHAPTER XIII. 16. CHAPTER XIV. 17. CHAPTER XV. 18. CHAPTER XVI. 19. CHAPTER XVII. 20. Chapter VI.) 21. CHAPTER XVIII. 22. CHAPTER XIX. 23. CHAPTER XX. 24. CHAPTER XXI. 25. CHAPTER XXII. 26. CHAPTER XXIII. 27. CHAPTER XXIV. 28. CHAPTER XXV. 29. CHAPTER XXVI. 30. CHAPTER XXVII. 31. CHAPTER XXVIII. 32. CHAPTER XXIX. 33. CHAPTER XXX. 34. CHAPTER XXXI. 35. CHAPTER XXXII. 36. CHAPTER I. 37. CHAPTER II. 38. Chapter V.) It appears to us that the skin should be stripped from any 39. Chapter VI.; though this is a mode of service less to be recommended, as 40. CHAPTER III. 41. Chapter V., or, with flour and butter, then seasoned with spice as 42. CHAPTER IV. 43. Chapter VII., or a little soy (when its flavour is admissible), or 44. CHAPTER V. 45. CHAPTER VI. 46. Chapter XVII.), laid lightly round it, is always an agreeable one to 47. Chapter III.), mince them quickly upon a dish with a large sharp knife, 48. CHAPTER VII. 49. CHAPTER VIII. 50. introduction of these last into pies unless they are especially ordered: 51. CHAPTER IX. 52. CHAPTER X. 53. 18. Cheek. 54. Chapter VIII., adding, at pleasure, a flavouring of minced onion or 55. CHAPTER XI. 56. 10. Breast, Brisket End. 57. Chapter I.), or as much good beef broth as may be required for the hash, 58. CHAPTER XII. 59. 7. Breast. 60. Chapter VI. may be substituted for the usual ingredients, the parsley 61. CHAPTER XIII. 62. 6. Leg. 63. CHAPTER XIV. 64. Chapter VIII., and the sausage-meat may then be placed on either side of 65. CHAPTER XV. 66. Chapter VIII., sew it up, truss and spit it firmly, baste it for ten 67. Chapter VIII.) rolled into small balls, and simmered for ten minutes in 68. Chapter XVII.), and beat them together until they are well blended; next 69. CHAPTER XVI. 70. CHAPTER XVII. 71. CHAPTER XVIII. 72. Chapter XV.): their livers also may be put into them. 73. CHAPTER XIX. 74. Chapter XVIII., but it must be boiled very dry, and left to become quite 75. CHAPTER XX. 76. CHAPTER XXI. 77. CHAPTER XXII. 78. CHAPTER XXIII. 79. Chapter XXIII., is exceedingly convenient for preparations of this kind; 80. CHAPTER XXIV. 81. 1. Let everything used for the purpose be delicately clean and _dry_; 82. 2. Never place a preserving-pan _flat upon the fire_, as this will 83. 3. After the sugar is added to them, stir the preserves gently at first, 84. 5. Fruit which is to be preserved in syrup must first be blanched or 85. 6. To preserve both the true flavour and the colour of fruit in jams and 86. 7. Never use tin, iron, or pewter spoons, or skimmers, for preserves, as 87. 8. When cheap jams or jellies are required, make them at once with 88. 9. Let fruit for preserving be gathered always in perfectly dry weather, 89. CHAPTER XXV. 90. CHAPTER XXVI. 91. 4. (Lemon-rinds, cinnamon, carraway-seeds, or ginger, or currants at 92. CHAPTER XXVII. 93. CHAPTER XXVIII. 94. CHAPTER XXIX. 95. CHAPTER XXX. 96. CHAPTER XXXI. 97. CHAPTER XXXII. 98. Chapter VIII., but increase the ingredients to three or four times the 99. PART II. Induction, 6_s._ 100. PART III. Organic Chemistry, price 31_s._ 6_d._ 101. PART III. 3_s._ 6_d._

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