Ebook - Recipes Tried And True (1894 Cookbook).txt

BEVERAGES.

The cup that cheers, but not inebriates."

Polly, put the kettle on."

COOLING DRINK FOR INVALIDS. MRS. RETTA LUCAS.

Two teaspoonfuls arrow root wet with a little cold water, three

tablespoonfuls white sugar, juice of half a lemon, and a small piece

of rind; stir quickly while you fill a quart pitcher with boiling

water. This is a cooling and nutritious drink for the sick.

RASPBERRY VINEGAR. MRS. E. S.

To nine quarts of mashed berries, add one quart of good vinegar; let

stand from four days to a week; then squeeze out the juice. Add one

quart of sugar to each quart of juice. Boil fifteen minutes; then

bottle tightly.

CHOCOLATE. MRS. W. E. THOMAS.

Scrape fine two ounces (two squares) unsweetened chocolate. Use

Walter Baker & Co.s No. 1 chocolate. Put into a granite ware pan, add

a small cup or sugar, a pinch of salt, and two tablespoons of hot

water; let this boil, stirring it constantly, until it is smooth and

glossy, like a caramel; then add one large pint of good rich milk, and

one pint of hot water; let this come to a boil, stirring constantly;

add a tablespoon of corn starch dissolved in a little cold milk or

water. When this boils, serve at once, with whipped cream, flavored

with a little vanilla.

If you cannot have the whipped cream, pour your chocolate from one

pitcher into another, or beat with a whisk until frothy. If you have

to use skimmed milk, take more milk and less water. Never omit the

salt, as it is very essential to the flavor.

COFFEE. EUGENE DE WOLFE.

Allow one tablespoonful to each cupful. Moisten with whole or half

well beaten egg; pour on half pint cold water; let this come to

boiling point; then fill up with boiling water. Stop up the nose of

the coffee pot, and let stand on stove fifteen to twenty minutes.

INVALID COFFEE. MRS. S. A. POWERS.

Three cups warm water, one cup baking molasses. Take as much fresh,

new bran as this will moisten (not wet); mix thoroughly, and brown in

oven exactly like coffee, and to this two pounds of mixed ground Rio

and Java coffee; then stir in three well beaten eggs. You will have

about ten quarts of mixture when done.

FOR USING.--Take one tablespoonful of this mixture to a cup of boiling

water; let boil from fifteen to twenty minutes.

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