Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... — A Closer Reading

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text. Footnotes have been moved to follow the recipes in which they appear.

LADY’S NEW RECEIPT-BOOK;

A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families,

CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR

COOKING, PRESERVING, PICKLING,

PREPARING THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES ACCORDING TO THE MOST NEW AND APPROVED RECEIPTS, VIZ.:

SOUPS, FISH, MEATS, VEGETABLES, POULTRY, OYSTERS, GAME, PUDDINGS, PIES, TARTS, CUSTARDS, ICE CREAMS, BLANC-MANGE, CAKES, CONFECTIONARY, SWEETMEATS, JELLIES, SYRUPS, CORDIALS, CANDIES, PERFUMERY, ETC.

THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED,

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS FOR PREPARING FARINA, INDIAN MEAL, FANCY TEA CAKE, MARMALADES, ETC. BEING A SEQUEL TO HER “COMPLETE COOKERY.”

“Let these receipts be fairly and faithfully tried, and I trust that few, if any, will cause disappointment in the result.”--_Preface_

PHILADELPHIA: A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART 1850.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by A. HART, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins.

The present volume is designed as a sequel to my book, entitled “Directions for Cookery in all its Branches.” Since the first appearance of that work, I have introduced into the new editions so many improvements and additional receipts that its size can no longer be conveniently increased. While obtaining fresh accessions of valuable knowledge on this and other subjects connected with the domestic improvement of my young countrywomen, I have been induced to note down, as they presented themselves, these new items of information. And I now offer them, arranged in due form, to that most efficient of all patrons, the public.

Families who possess the means and the inclination to keep an excellent table, and to entertain their guests in a handsome and liberal manner, will, most probably, find in this book and its predecessor all that may be wanted for such purposes. A large number of these new receipts are of French origin; obtained from French cooks, or from persons instructed by them. And I have endeavoured to render the directions as intelligible and practicable as possible; so as to be easily understood, and easily followed. I have not thought it necessary to give their titles in French, as foreign designations can rarely be comprehended, or indeed accurately pronounced, except by those who are familiar with the language. Let these and the other receipts be fairly and faithfully tried, and I trust that few, if any, will cause disappointment in the result.

_Philadelphia, Oct. 15th, 1846._

SOUPS, &C. 9 FISH, &C. 19 VEGETABLES, &C. 38 MEATS, &C. 58 POULTRY, GAME, &C. 88 PUDDINGS, &C. 107 SWEETMEATS, &C. 165 BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES 186 CAKES, &C. 193 DOMESTIC LIQUORS, &C. 230 PERFUMERY, REMEDIES, &C. 252 LAUNDRY-WORK, NEEDLE-WORK, &C. 297 BREAKFASTS, DINNERS, SUPPERS, &C. 365 ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 395 THE INDIAN MEAL BOOK 455 INDEX 495 INDEX TO ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS 503

Wheat flour one pound of 16 ounces is one quart. Indian meal one pound 2 ounces is one quart. Butter, when soft, one pound 1 ounce is one quart. Loaf-sugar, broken up, one pound is one quart. White sugar, powdered, one pound 1 ounce is one quart. Best brown sugar one pound 2 ounces is one quart. Eggs ten eggs weigh one pound.

Four large table-spoonfuls are half a jill. Eight large table-spoonfuls are one jill. Two jills are half a pint. A common-sized tumbler holds half a pint. A common-sized wine-glass holds about half a jill. Two pints are one quart. Four quarts are one gallon.

About twenty-five drops of any thin liquid will fill a common-sized tea-spoon.

Four table-spoonfuls will generally fill a common-sized wine-glass.

Four wine-glasses will fill a half-pint tumbler, or a large coffee-cup.

A quart black bottle holds in reality about a pint and a half; sometimes not so much.

A table-spoonful of salt is about one ounce.

Half a gallon is a quarter of a peck. One gallon is half a peck. Two gallons are one peck. Four gallons are half a bushel. Eight gallons are one bushel.

Throughout this book, the pound is avoirdupois weight--sixteen ounces.

THE LADY’S RECEIPT-BOOK.