Guide To Nut Cookery

Guide for Nut Cookery

Guide for Nut Cookery; Together with a Brief History of Nuts and Their Food Values

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... the weak stomach, are rejected. Fruit juice can be used in many ways: as a beverage; as a substitute for cream, when used with grains; or in the form of jelly (without sugar). The juice, or sweet wine, can be obtained from all juicy fruits. GRAPE WINE. Select good, ripe fruit, exercising care not to take any which is overripe. Unripe fruit is more acid, and does not have the delicate flavors found in the ripe fruit; and overripe fruit contains germs of fermentation which, if they are not all destroyed during the process of wine making, will cause the wine to ferment. Wash the grapes well, and separate from the stems. Mash them a little with a wooden potato masher, that there may be sufficient juice in which to cook them. Place in a granite stew-pan, and cook until the seeds are freed from the pulp. Pour into a jelly-bag made of two thicknesses of cheese-cloth. A good way to make the bag is to double the cloth and cut it square, like Fig. I. Place the edge ab upon the edge be, and it will then look like Fig. 2. Then sew these edges, ab and be, on the machine with a short stitch, so that none of the fruit will ooze through. The line de is the opening of the bag. Scald the bag with boiling water; when cool, wring out, and place in an earthen or granite dish, and pour the fruit into the bag. Tie the mouth of the bag with a stout twine, and place over the pan a jelly stand, lifting the bag and fastening it to the top; or, if there is no stand handy, fasten the bag to a straight stick, letting the stick rest upon the backs of two chairs, and allowing the point of the bag to hang over the earthen or granite dish. Do not squeeze the bag, as that will press out some of the a t i t ' J c Fig. 1. Fig. 2. pulp. Allow it to drain overnight, or for...

Guide to Nut Cookery