Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-07-03
ORIGINAL FAMILY RECIPES.
PUBLISHED sT MRS. ELLET.
Prepared by q Dublin Lady.
GINGER BEER.

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GINGER BEER.
IA gallons water, II lbs loaf sugar, OF.
ginger, we'll pounded; boil one hour, aoa
the whites Of 8 eggs beat up, and take CT
the scum strain the liquor into an earthen
pan, let it stand till cold, then put into Jour
cask with the peel Of IA lemons cut thin,
and their Juice strained Add half spoon
full of ale yeast On the top. Stop the vessel
closely for fortnight. Then it may be bot
tied, and in another fortnight will be fit for
use.
TO PICKLE eHERKINs AND KIDNEY BEANS.
Put the beans and gherkins, dried with
flannel, in salt and water that will bear n
egg, leave them till quite yellow, stirring
every day. Then put them in a brass ket-
tie with cabbage leaves under and around
them, so that they do not touch the brass.
Put in one-third vinegar and two of water,
put leaf over and cover close, so as to con-
fine the steam Put them on a slow FIRE,
but do not let them boil. Change the leaves
as often as they grow yellow. When greer,
take out the pickles, and put them on dish
to cool and dry. Boil the vinegar with a
spoonful of black pepper, and one Of bruised
ginger to quart; throw it boiling over the
pickles, and cover them closely in small jars,
PANCAKES.
Make thin batter with -four in a quart
of milk break in six eggs, add little salt
and spoonful of ground ginger: sweeten
to taste, and put in glassful Of spirits; put
little butter into your hot pan, and large
spoonful of the batter; move it round till it
covers the bottom: when one side is done
toss it over and fry the other: send the
cakes up with grated cinnamon and sugar.
TO PICKLE NEAT
To gallons water put lbs. salt; boil
and skim well, and let it stand till cold then
put it into the vessel for your meat; boil
the pickle over in two months adding lb.
salt, and skim we'll; keep weight on the
meat to keep it under the pickle; if any
should be bloody, sprinkle salt on it, and
let it stand all night; then scrape and wipe
it before it goes into the pickle.
TO MAKE VINEGAR.
! PA zxSsssa of water to ID. brown SUI
gar, mixing it wItn naIT the water cO1u, half
boiling hot when about milk warm throw
in toast well Drowned cover with canvass
or glass when it has done working, stop
the vessel and put in a warm place; it will
be fit for use in three or four months
VALENCIA WINES.
To each gallon of good spirit, take the
peel of Is lemons let them remain is hours
in the spirits; then add the juice, with FIVE
quarts Of cold spring water, three pounds Of
loaf sugar, quarter of pound of bitter
almonds we'll blanched, half drachm of
saffron, and two ounces Of ground ginger;
mix all together, and pour over all three
quarts of new milk, scalding hot, but not
boiled; let it stand till next day, then run
it through flannel, like jelly.
TO PRESERVE LEMON PEEL
Squeeze the juice out of the lemons, put
the rinds, with the pulps, into water, and
let them remain a fortnight, taking care al
ways to have them covered with the same
water; then take out the pulp, and boil the
rinds in the water till icy can be pierced
with knitting needle; make rich syrup
Of brown sugar-pound for pound of rinds
and pour it boiling over them; cover
close for three weeks, then give them Sc
cond boil in the syrup, and cover for use.
BAKED APPLE PUDDING
Pare and quarter four large apples, boil
them tender. with the rind of a lemon, in so
little water that nothing may remain when
done but the juice; add the crumb of
small roll, 4 OF. butter, melted, the yolks Of
five and whites Of three eggs, the juice of
half a lemon, and sugar to taste; beat all
together, and lay it in dish then beat the
two remaining whites to foth and throw
it round the edge of the dish CRATE little
white sugar over when baked.
cuRRANr CAKE.
Beat pound of fresh butter one hour to
a cream take II lbs. currants, washed and
picked, and beat up the whites and yolks of
eight eggs; put in the sugar by degrees,
then flour and currants; add gill of bran
dy, some candied orange and citron, beat
the mixture till very light, and bake it in
pan.
Take Is eggs, leaving out the whites,
beat an hour with pound of white sifted
sugar; add two ounces Of carraway seed and
grated lemon peel, beat it we'll, and stir in
three quarters of pound of -four, we'll dried
Put in wine glass of spirits, butter the
pan, and bake an hour.
Old Joe Bartlett honestly says-''To see
an old man with one foot in the grave, and
the other quivering on the brink, laughing
at morals and ridiculing religion, is the most
detestable picture of human depravity which
heart can conceive, or the imagination paint"
Though lost to sight. to memory DEAR"
as the maiden said to her lover, when his
face was buried in beard and whiskers.