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Buckeye cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
_ wet in cold water and set away to cool; eat with cream and sugar. | Other fruit can be used instead of raspberries—Mrs. J. P. Rea, Minneapolis, Minn. BorLeD CUSTARD. One quart milk, two table-spoons corn starch, two eggs, one-fourth tea-spoon salt, butter size of a hickory-nut; wet the starch in a little of the milk, heat the remainder to near boiling, in a tin pail set in a pot of boiling water. The proper heat will be indicated by a froth or film rising to the top; add the starch till it thickens, stirring con- stantly, then add the eggs well-beaten with four table-spoons of sugar, let it cook, stirring briskly, take off and beat well; flavor; served with grated cocoa-nut it is elegant. CHOCOLATE CUSTARD. _ Break two sections chocolate in a half-dozen pieces, put it in a pan over boiling water, with milk enough to barely cover it; mash and stir perfectly smooth, then add the rest of the milk (one quart in all, reserving three table-spoons in which to dissolve the corn starch,) one cup sugar, yolks of six eggs, a heaping table-spoon corn starch; beat the yolks, add the sugar and corn starch (dissolved in milk), stir all slowly in the boiling milk, in which the chocolate is ‘ dissolved, add a pinch of salt, and let cook a few minutes, stirring constantly ; eat cold with white cake.—Miss Burme Johnson. FLoatinG IsLanp. Make a custard of the yolks of six eggs, one quart milk, a small pinch of salt, sugar to tasteFloating Island; beat and strain yolks before adding to the milk; place custard in a large tin pan, and'set in stove, stirring constantly until it boils, then remove, flavor with lemon or rose, and pour into a dish (a shallow, wide one is best), spread smoothly over the boiling hot custard the well-beaten whites, grating some loaf- sugar (some add grated cocoa-nut) on the top. Set the dish in a pan of ice-water and serve cold. Some prepare the whites by placing a table-spoon at a time on boiling water, lifting them out carefully, when cooked, with a skimmer and laying them gently on the float. This is the “old reliable recipe.”—Mrs. W. W. W. ON CREAMS AND CUSTARDS. Re Goop BAKED ‘Cusrarn. Eight well-beaten eggs, leaving two whites for the top, three pints ~ milk; sweeten and flavor to taste ; bake for two hours in a slow oven. Beat the reserved whites to stiff froth with two table-spoons sugarBaked Custard, spread over the top and return to oven to brown. GELATINE CusTARD. To one-third package Coxe’s gelatine, add a little less than one pint boiling water ; stir until gelatine is dissolved, add the juice of one lemon, and one and a half cups sugar; strain through a jelly- strainer into dish for the table, and set in a cool place. For custard, to one and a half pints milk add the yolks of four eggs (reserving the whites), and four table-spoons sugarGelatine Custard; cook and flavor when cool. When required for the table, cut gelatine into small squares, and over them pour the custard. Add four table-spoons powdered sugar to the whites of four eggs well beaten, and when ready for the table place over the custard with a spoon.—Mrs. W. A. James. Linog CUSTARD.