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Beverages, Ices And Candies
Roasting Coffee
Coffee when roasted, and especially when ground, loses its aroma. If roasted too fast or too much, it is little better than so much…
Coffee-Roaster
How to Make Coffee. There are many ways of making it. It is brewed, boiled, filtered and generally baked, not roasted. Wehave shown that it…
Artificial Cream for Coffee
Beat well one egg, with one spoonful of sugar; pour a pint of scalding hot milk over this, stirring it briskly. Make it the night previous…
To Make Lemonade
Roll the lemons until they become soft. Grate the rinds, cut the lemons in slices, and squeeze them into a pitcher (a new clothes-pin will…
Cherry Syrup
Take six pounds of cherries, and bruise them; pour on a pint and a half of hot water, and boil for fifteen minutes; strain through a…
To Prepare the Drink
Put a spoonful of the jelly in a goblet of water, and let it stand about ten minutes; then stir it up, and fill it with pounded ice…
Spruce Beer
Allow an ounce of hops and a tablespoonful of ginger to a gallon of water. When well boiled strain it, and put in a pint of molasses and…
Beer of Sulphuric Acid
Take of dilute sulphuric acid and concentrated infusion of orange-peel, each twelve drachms; syrup of orange-peel, five fluid ounces. This…
Cream of Tartar Beer
Mix two ounces of cream of tartar, three pounds of brown sugar, three quarts of yeast. To be mixed and allowed to work. This makes ten…
Beer of Various Fruits
Have two quarts of water boiling, split six figs. and cut two apples into six or eight slices each; boil the whole together twenty minutes…
Cream Beer
Two and one-fourth pounds white sugar, two pounds of tartaric acid, and the juice of two lemons and three pints of water. Boil together…
Home-Made Bitters
Take half an ounce of the yolk of fresh eggs carefully separated from the whites; half an ounce of gentian-root; one and a half drachms of…
Bogartcin
Ice cream is a preparation of milk or cream, with egg, sugar and flavoring, and frozen in an ice cream freezer. Water ices are the juices…
Ice Cream Freezer-Internal Arrangement
ho swallowed unless you know that they are made of the juices of real fruits. The ice cream of cheap restaurants, also, is often made of…
Ice Cream (Every quart of cream mix six)
In every quart of cream mix six ounces of crushed white sugar, and flavor with extract of vanilla, strawberry, pineapple, lemon or other…
Molasses Candy
We give two excellent recipes: 1. Take two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of vinegar, and a piece of butter…
Sugar Candy
Six cupfuls sugar, one of vinegar, one of water, one spoonful of butter, and one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water; boil…
White Sugar Candy
Two cupfuls of white sugar, half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, a cupful of cold water, and teaspoonful of butter. Boil without stirring.
Chocolate Caramels
One cupful of molasses, one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of milk, one-half cupful of grated chocolate, butter the size of an egg. Boil…
Cocoanut Candy
Two cupfuls of white sugar, one-fourth cupful of water: boil; put the pan in a larger pan of water, and stir until cool; when it begins to…
Preserving, Drying And Canning Fruit
I. OLD AND NEW WAYS OF PRESERVING. II. CANNING FRUIT. III. HOW TO PRESERVE FRUIT.- IV. CANNING WHOLE FRUIT-PEACHES. - V. CANNING TOMATOES…
RECIPES FOR PRESERVING
XIV. BRANDY PEACHES AND OTHER BRANDIED FRUITS. I. Old and New Ways of Preserving.
Rules for Preserving
A flannel bag is the best for straining jelly. If possible, avoid putting jelly in any stage in a metal vessel, unless silvered. For every…
Fruits, and How to Can
Fruits for canning should be of the best quality, and not over ripe. Berries and all that kind of fruits are to be cooked in the syrup and…
Time Of Boiling Fruit
Cherries, moderately, AMOUNT OF SUGAR TO A QUART CAN OR JAR. 0 • 5 minutes. For Cherries, • • . 6 ounces. Raspberries, moderately, .