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    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats
    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats
    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats
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    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats

    By Eliza Leslie

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    First published in Boston in 1828, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was America's first baking cookbook and the first to organize recipes by listing ingredients at the beginning of each recipe separate from the directions, as opposed to being lumped together in a narrative paragraph.

    Eliza Leslie's Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats was the first distinctively baking cookbook published in America, as well as the first to share ingredients in a systematic list order at the beginning of each recipe. As Eliza recorded at the time of initial publication, "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 article."

    Seventy-five Receipts was Leslie's first cookbook, and it was her most popular and influential cookery title. Featuring recipes ranging from Preserved Pine-Apple to Gooseberry Jelly, Curds and Whey, and Butter Biscuits, Eliza stressed that the recipes within the collection are "in every sense of the word, American," as opposed to the many British and French cookbooks being produced at the time. She adds that if exactly followed, the articles produced from Seventy-five Receipts' recipes, "will not be found inferior to any of a similar description made in the European manner."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYoucanprint
    Release dateApr 6, 2017
    ISBN9788892658608
    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats
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    Eliza Leslie

    Eliza Leslie (1787–1858) was a prolific writer of children’s books and cookbooks, and also wrote for women’s magazines. She was best known for her books on domestic management and etiquette, and became quite a household name.

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      Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats - Eliza Leslie

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      WEIGHT AND MEASURE

      PART THE FIRST: PASTRY

      PASTRY

      PUFF PASTE

      COMMON PASTE FOR PIES

      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

      BATTER

      BREAD

      RICE PUDDING

      BOSTON PUDDING

      FRITTERS

      FINE CUSTARDS

      PLAIN CUSTARDS

      RICE CUSTARDS

      COLD CUSTARDS

      CURDS AND WHEY

      A TRIFLE

      WHIPT CREAM

      FLOATING ISLAND

      ICE CREAM

      ANOTHER KIND OF ICE-CREAM

      CALF'S-FEET JELLY

      BLANCMANGE

      PART THE SECOND: CAKES

      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

      LAFAYETTE GINGERBREAD

      A DOVER CAKE

      CRULLERS

      DOUGH-NUTS

      WAFFLES

      SOFT MUFFINS

      INDIAN BATTER CAKES

      FLANNEL CAKES OR CRUMPETS

      ROLLS

      PART THE THIRD: SWEETMEATS

      GENERAL DIRECTIONS

      APPLE JELLY

      RED CURRANT JELLY

      BLACK CURRANT JELLY

      GOOSEBERRY JELLY

      GRAPE JELLY

      QUINCES

      PIPPINS

      PEACHES

      PLUMS

      STRAWBERRIES

      CRANBERRIES

      PUMPKIN

      PINE-APPLE

      RASPBERRY JAM

      APPENDIX: MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS

      A-LA-MODE BEEF

      CHICKEN PUDDING

      A BONED TURKEY

      COLLARED PORK

      SPICED OYSTERS

      STEWED OYSTERS

      OYSTER SOUP

      FRIED OYSTERS

      BAKED OR SCOLLOPED OYSTERS

      OYSTER PATTIES

      OYSTER-SAUCE

      PICKLED OYSTERS

      CHICKEN SALAD

      LOBSTER SALAD

      STEWED MUSHROOMS

      PEACH CORDIAL

      CHERRY BOUNCE

      RASPBERRY CORDIAL

      BLACKBERRY CORDIAL

      GINGER BEER

      JELLY CAKE

      COLOURING FOR ICING, ETC

      RICE CAKES FOR BREAKFAST

      GROUND RICE PUDDING

      TOMATA KETCHUP

      YEAST

      Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry,

      Cakes, and Sweetmeats

      By

      Eliza LESLIE

      1832

      Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats by Eliza Leslie

      © David De Angelis 2017 [all rights reserved]

      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.

      WEIGHT AND MEASURE

      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.

      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

      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.

      Rub the rolling-pin with flour, and sprinkle a little on the lump of paste. Roll it out thin, quickly, and evenly, pressing on the rolling-pin very lightly. Then take the second of the four

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