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Vegetable Cookery; Including a Complete Set of Recipes for Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, the Preparation of Sauces, Soups, Beverages, Etc., Etc
Vegetable Cookery Including a Complete Set of Recipes for Pastry Preserving Pickling the Preparation of Sauces Soups Beverages Etc Etc Author:John Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Frederick Pitman Subjects: Cookery (Vegetables) Vegetarian cookery Cooking / General Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Vegetables Cooking / Vegetarian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FRUITS PRESERVED WITH SUGAR. 40. The term Preserves is sometimes applied to raits boiled with sugar in any condition, but it will be convenient to arrange them under the four following heads: -- 1. Preserves; 2. Jams and Marmalades; 3. Moulded Pulp or Fruit Moulds ; 4. Jellies. (1.) Preserves. 41. Preserves proper are fruits or other vegetables protected by sugar or syrup, either entire, or, if divided, not mashed or reduced to pulp. They may be boiled or potted in the syrup, or they may be removed from the syrup, and dried on sieves or dishes in the sun, or in a very moderate oven, with a little powdered sugar sprinkled over them every time they are turned. (a.) Having prepared the fruit, put it carefully in wide-mouthed bottles ; sprinkle the sugar in with the fruit, reserving a rather larger portion for the top (31) ; put the bottles in a pan of cold water; gradually raise the temperature; simmer hah" an hour; fill up the bottles from each other, and complete the process as for bottled fruit (37). Ripe currants, strawberries, and raspberries, may be thus preserved, eight ounces of sugar being added to a pound of fruit. (6.) Form a syrup (32) with from twelve ounces to two pounds of sugar and a pint of water; a lemon cut in slices, and the peel of such fruit as pines may be simmered about five minutes in it. Strain, and when the syrup is cold, add the fruit, if large, in thin slices; simmer till the fruit is tender, or til...« less