Orange Cream is made with two ounces of sugar, four
eggs, half a pint of white wine, half a pint of water, and a
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tablespoonful of cornflour ✪ Orange Cream; stir over a slow fire till it
thickens.
Orange Frosting. — The juice of two lemons and two
oranges ; mix till stiff enough to spread with powdered sugar.
Walnut Cakes. — A cupful and a half each of sugar and
butter, two of flour, three-fourths of milk, the whites of
four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder, one large cupful
of English walnut meats chopped coarsely✪ Walnut Cakes.
Zwieback. — Make a paste of one and a half pound
of flour, half a pound of butter, one pound of sugar,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and milk so that it can be
rolled✪ Zwieback. K-oU very thin, cut into any shape, and bake on
waxed tin.
BREAKFASTS.
" A bit in the morning is worth more than all day long."
Thomas Tusser.
Few people seem to pay much attention to breakfasts.
It seems to be regarded as a mere meal to fortify one for
getting through the day ; indeed, many persons despise the
morning meal, of which in the artificiality of modern life there
are few, even amongst the sterner sex, who sit down to
breakfast with a really good appetite. A cup of tea and an
egg, perhaps now and then a kidney, or a cup of coffee and
a slice or two of dehcately thin slices of bacon, are supposed
to be enough to satisfy the inner man till luncheon time.
A contemporary asks the question, " Whether breakfast
is most enjoyed in solitude or in company, and whether few
pictures are fairer or more suggestive of the peace and
orderly comfort of an English family than that afforded by i
a country house breakfast table in summer ? The mother is
there behind the tea and coffee cups, the father behind his
newspaper ; the children chattering together of their own
affairs ; the girls each with a button -hole in her dress, look
as clear and fresh as the morning dew. The day is planned
out and little informal arrangements made," etc.
On the other hand a bachelor's breakfast has its own
charms. There is no occasion to jangle about reading the
newspaper first, as he alone is King ; no inquisitive eyes to
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give curious glances at the letters on his plate, and no one
to object to the matutinal pipe.
At breakfast it is now general in country houses where
there are many guests for each to have a tiny milk jug,
butter dish, and sugar basin placed in front of him.
Fern pots made in beaten silver are much used ; the milk
jugs, in the shape of an ordinary milk can, made in silver,
are very novel. But perhaps I am wandering a little from
the subject of The Housewife's Keferee ; yet as I consider
the dining-room so very closely allied to the cuisine, I feel I
must have a little say on the subject, before giving a few
breakfast dishes.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Orange Cream is made with two ounces of sugar, four eggs, half a pint of white wine, half a pint of water, and a
THE housewife's KEFEKEE
tablespoonful of cornflour ; stir over a slow fire till it thickens.
Orange Frosting. — The juice of two lemons and two oranges ; mix till stiff enough to spread with powdered sugar.
Walnut Cakes. — A cupful and a half each of sugar and butter, two of flour, three-fourths of milk, the whites of four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder, one large cupful of English walnut meats chopped coarsely.
Zwieback. — Make a paste of one and a half pound of flour, half a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and milk so that it can be rolled. K-oU very thin, cut into any shape, and bake on waxed tin.
BREAKFASTS.
" A bit in the morning is worth more than all day long."
Thomas Tusser.
Few people seem to pay much attention to breakfasts. It seems to be regarded as a mere meal to fortify one for getting through the day ; indeed, many persons despise the morning meal, of which in the artificiality of modern life there are few, even amongst the sterner sex, who sit down to breakfast with a really good appetite. A cup of tea and an egg, perhaps now and then a kidney, or a cup of coffee and a slice or two of delicately thin slices of bacon, are supposed to be enough to satisfy the inner man till luncheon time.
A contemporary asks the question, " Whether breakfast is most enjoyed in solitude or in company, and whether few pictures are fairer or more suggestive of the peace and orderly comfort of an English family than that afforded by i a country house breakfast table in summer ? The mother is there behind the tea and coffee cups, the father behind his newspaper ; the children chattering together of their own affairs ; the girls each with a button -hole in her dress, look as clear and fresh as the morning dew. The day is planned out and little informal arrangements made," etc.
On the other hand a bachelor's breakfast has its own charms. There is no occasion to jangle about reading the newspaper first, as he alone is King ; no inquisitive eyes to
BREAKFASTS
give curious glances at the letters on his plate, and no one to object to the matutinal pipe.
At breakfast it is now general in country houses where there are many guests for each to have a tiny milk jug, butter dish, and sugar basin placed in front of him. Fern pots made in beaten silver are much used ; the milk jugs, in the shape of an ordinary milk can, made in silver, are very novel. But perhaps I am wandering a little from the subject of The Housewife's Keferee ; yet as I consider the dining-room so very closely allied to the cuisine, I feel I must have a little say on the subject, before giving a few breakfast dishes.
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