Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats | Page 4

with the ingredients of which the pie is composed, and lay on
the lid, in which you must prick some holes, or cut a small slit in the
top. Crimp the edges with a sharp knife.
Heap up the ingredients so that the pie will be highest in the middle.
Some think it makes common paste more crisp and light, to beat it hard
on both sides with the rolling-pin, after you give it the first rolling,

when all the butter is in.
If the butter is very fresh, you may mix with the flour a
salt-spoonful
of salt.
MINCE PIES
One pound and a half of boiled beef's heart, or fresh
tongue--chopped when cold.
Two pounds of beef suet, chopped fine.

Four pounds of pippin apples, chopped.
Two pounds of raisins,
stoned and chopped.
Two pounds of currants, picked, washed, and
dried.
Two pounds of powdered sugar.
One quart of white wine.

One quart of brandy.
One wine-glass of rose-water.
Two grated
nutmegs.
Half an ounce of powdered cinnamon
A quarter of an
ounce of powdered cloves
A quarter of an ounce of powdered mace

A teaspoon of salt.
Two large oranges.
Half a pound of citron, cut
in slips.
Parboil a beef's heart, or a fresh tongue. After you have taken off the
skin and fat, weigh a pound and a half. When it is cold, chop it very
fine. Take the inside of the suet; weigh two pounds, and chop it as fine
as possible. Mix the meat and suet together, adding the salt. Pare, core,
and chop the apples, and then stone and chop the raisins. Having
prepared the currants, add them to the other fruit, and mix the fruit with
the meat and suet. Put in the sugar and spice, and the grated peel and
juice of the oranges. Wet the whole with the rose water and liquor, and
mix all well together.
Make the paste, allowing for each pie, half a pound of butter and three
quarters of a pound of sifted flour. Make it in the same manner as
puff-paste, but it will not be quite so rich. Lay a sheet of paste all over a
soup-plate. Fill it with mince-meat, laying slips of citron on the top.
Roll out a sheet of paste, for the lid of the pie. Put it on, and crimp the
edges with a knife. Prick holes in the lid.
Bake the pies half an hour in a brisk oven.

Keep your mince meat in a jar tightly covered. Set it in a dry, cool
place, and occasionally add more brandy to it.
Instead of the heart or tongue, you may, if you choose, use part of a
round of fresh beef.
PLUM PUDDING
One pound of raisins, stoned and cut in half.
One pound of currants,
picked, washed and dried.
One pound of beef suet chopped fine.

One pound of grated stale bread, or, half a pound of flour and half a
pound of bread.
Eight eggs.
A quarter of a pound of sugar.
A
glass of brandy.
A pint of milk.
A glass of wine.
Two nutmegs,
grated.
A table-spoonful of mixed cinnamon and mace.
A
salt-spoonful of salt.
You must prepare all your ingredients the day before (except beating
the eggs) that in the morning you may have nothing to do but to mix
them, as the pudding will require six hours to boil.
Beat the eggs very light, then put to them half the milk and beat both
together. Stir in gradually the flour and grated bread. Next add the
sugar by degrees. Then the suet and fruit alternately. The fruit must be
well sprinkled with flour, lest it sink to the bottom. Stir very hard. Then
add the spice and liquor, and lastly the remainder of the milk. Stir the
whole mixture very well together. If it is not thick enough, add a little
more grated bread or flour. If there is too much bread or flour, the
pudding will be hard and heavy.
Dip your pudding-cloth, in boiling water, shake it out and
sprinkle it
slightly with flour. Lay it in a pan and pour the mixture into the cloth.
Tie it up carefully, allowing room for the pudding to swell.
Boil it six hours, and turn it carefully out of the cloth.
Before you send it to table, have ready some blanched sweet almonds
cut in slips, or some slips of citron, or both. Stick them all over the

outside of the pudding.
Eat it with wine, or with a sauce made of drawn butter, wine and
nutmeg.
The pudding will be improved if you add to the other ingredients, the
grated rind of a large lemon or orange.
LEMON PUDDING
One small lemon, with a smooth thin rind.
Three eggs.
A quarter of
a pound of powdered white sugar.
A quarter of a pound of fresh
butter--washed.
A table-spoonful of white wine and brandy, mixed.

A tea-spoonful of rose-water.
Five ounces of sifted flour, and a