The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.].
- Esther Copley
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![2. By filling a wide-mouthed bottle with the leaves or seeds, perfectly dry, and pouring over them brandy, spirits of wine, wine, or vinegar; letting them steep fourteen days, then straining the liquor, and keeping it closely corked. W here much cookery of various Icinds is carried on, these ■ essences are very handy, and, perhaps, not much more expensive than obtaining the flavours hi the usual mode. They are at hand all the year round when the fresh article may not be procured, and a few drops will instantly give the flavour required. i he former method is recommended for lemon-peel, allspice, cloves, mape, cinnamon, marjoram, thyme! 1 he steeping the substance in spirit is preferred for celery seeds (half an ounce bruised to quarter of a pint of spirit). Ginger (three ounces of fresh giated, and two ounces of the rind of lemon peel shaved thin, to a quart of spirit), allspice, cinna- mon, nutmeg, or cloves (three ounces braised to a quart), cayenne pepper (one ounce to one pint of brandy or wine), steep a fortnight. SPIRITS OF MIXED HERBS For flavouring soup. - Take lemon-thyme, winter Z°UT SWeet! rnai'j°rain’ sweet hasil, perfectly free ich-drap an- fnppe(] fr0m thestalH half an ounce each , lemon mid shaved close; and eschalots sliced of them1 Tv01'?5 Cdei'y seed one hmclnn. Steep the Honor PV^ of|b™(\ten then strain and bottle thrpp i Th<i herbs when strained off will keep two or ~®Tee \and may he used for flavouring any pre- paration which is strained after boiling. ' 1 SPIRIT OF MIXED SPICE. Black pepper one ounce; allspice half an ounce](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21534202_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
