Manuscript Cookbooks

Ginger Pudding

1/2 pint Molasses, 1 Teaspoon Ginger, 1 [do?] Cinnamon, 1 [do?] Cloves & Allspice mixed 1/2 Tea cup warm water with small Teaspoon full [Super?] Carbon of Soda dissolved in it, which add to molassesse - with one pint of Whortle berries or Cranberries, cut apples Green, or dried in Winter, with enough flour for a stiff batter Boil it 2 hours and a 1/2 hour. Dip - Butter and sugar beat together, with little wine.

French Cream Hotel Receipt.

Take 3 pints milk and put on to boil Simply sweetening it - Separate eggs, and have them ready in both kinds when the milk boils.- as well as the Grating of a good sized Lemon

Pass the whites through the boiling milk & skim it off - Add the yellow and Lemon grating, and allow it to boil up a few minutes, before pouring it into the bowl or open dish for Table. Then place white on it like Islands [??] Dotted with Jelly.

[Aps?]

14 ounces of flour half a pound of butter, and sugar butter rubbd fine, half a teaspoon of cinamon & nutmeg, 18 Drops of the essence of lemon a quarter of a glass of rosewater fill it with pure water, a half a glass more will wet it 1/2 and eggs mix all well together put it on your table and knead it well cut them round and bake them in a slow oven

Common Paste

May be made in the same manner as the other, except take 1 lb of flour, sifted weigh out 6 oz roll it out with 1/2 lb butter. [???] 1/2 pint water, or nearly so.

Collumbia Cake

1 lb flour 1/2 lb butter, the same of sugar, 5 or 10 eggs, if you chuse, beat light, mix them all well together, glass of wine, brandy and rose water mix spice, to your taste.

Alamode Beef

Take a [r?]ound of beef about 15 lbs more, [tigh?] this flat cut out the bone,

when iced put it away to dry.

Queen Cake

Is made in the same manner as pound cake, and if you chuse add to this quantity, a qrt of currants, picked, washed and well dryed.

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Fruit Cake

Is also made in the same manner as pound cake, except add to this quantity, a pound of currants picked, washed and well dryed 1 lb raisins, stoned and cut in half, 1/2 lb citron cut fine; put these in last by

them in the middle, fold it up, and put it in a cool place.

---Almond Pudding---

Take one lb of butter and 1 lb of sugar, beat them to a cream, 10 eggs, beat them very light., add them by degrees, 1 lb almonds, blanched and pounded, put them in by degrees, a wine glass of wine, brandy, rose water mixed in

---Cocoa Nut Pudding---

1 lb butter, and one of sifted sugar, beat them to a cream, the whites of 16 eggs beat to a

Rich paste for pudding

Take a lb and 1/4 of flour, and sift it, weigh out 1/2 lb of it, and put it on, one side of your table, take one lb of Butter, well washed, and divide it into 4 parts, 1 qr Cut fine with, 3/4 of your flour, wet this with one tumbler of water it should be just 1/2 pint. Roll out your paste and put the butter in at three different time sprinkling it everytime with some of your flour that was, weighed out, after you have put the butter in the last time, roll it well, cut off the edges, [?]

From Nettie

Grate a lemon rind & Juice 1 cup Sugar 1 " water 1 egg beaten 2 tablespoon flour a Piece of butter

Cherry Pie 3/4 cup Sugar 1 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch 1/4 teasp salt 3 cups canned cherries drained 1/3 cup chery Juice 1/4 teasp almond extract 1 tablespoon butter

Put Sugar, cornstarch, salt, cherries, add cherrie juice cook until thickener about 10 min cool add almond extract

Combination cake 5 egg yolks 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 1 1/3 cup flour 1 teasp hot water 1 teasp cream tartar 1/2 teasp soda 1 teasp vanilla pinch salt Beat yolks till light addsugar & milk add soda in water. Sift flour, cream tartar salt. Beat well