Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats | Page 5

quarter of a pound of
fresh butter
for the paste.
Grate the yellow part of the rind of a small lemon. Then cut the lemon
in half, and squeeze the juice into the plate that contains the grated rind,
carefully taking out all the seeds. Mix the juice and rind together.
Put a quarter of a pound of powdered white sugar into a deep earthen
pan, and cut up in it a quarter of a pound of the best fresh butter. If the
weather is very cold, set the pan near the fire, for a few minutes, to
soften the butter, but do not allow it to melt or it will be heavy. Stir the
butter and sugar together, with a stick or wooden spoon, till it is
perfectly light and of the consistence of cream.
Put the eggs in a shallow broad pan, and beat them with an
egg-beater
or rods, till they are quite smooth, and as thick as a boiled custard.
Then stir the eggs, gradually, into the pan of butter and sugar. Add the
liquor and rose water by degrees, and then stir in, gradually, the juice
and grated rind of the lemon. Stir the whole very hard, after all the
ingredients are in.
Have ready a puff-paste made of five ounces of sifted flour, and a
quarter of a pound of fresh butter. The paste must be made with as little

water as possible. Roll it out in a circular sheet, thin in the centre, and
thicker towards the edges, and just large enough to cover the bottom,
sides, and edges of a soup-plate. Butter the soup-plate very well, and
lay the paste in it, making it neat and even round the broad edge of the
plate. With a sharp knife, trim off the superfluous dough, and notch the
edges. Put in the mixture with a spoon, and bake the pudding about half
an hour, in a moderate oven. It should be baked of a very light brown.
If the oven is too hot, the paste will not have time to rise well. If too
cold, it will be clammy. When the pudding is cool, grate
loaf-sugar
over it.
Before using lemons for any purpose, always roll them awhile with
your hand on a table. This will cause them to yield a larger quantity of
juice.
ORANGE PUDDING.
One large orange, of a deep colour, and smooth thin rind. One lime.

A quarter of a pound of powdered white sugar.
A quarter of a pound
of fresh butter.
Three eggs.
A table-spoonful of mixed wine and
brandy.
A tea-spoonful of rose-water.
Grate the yellow rind of the orange and lime, and squeeze the juice into
a saucer or soup-plate, taking out all the seeds.
Stir the butter and sugar to a cream.
Beat the eggs as light as possible, and then stir them by degrees into the
pan of butter and sugar. Add, gradually, the liquor and rose-water, and
then by degrees, the orange and lime. Stir all well together.
Have ready a sheet of puff-paste made of five ounces of sifted flour,
and a quarter of a pound of fresh butter. Lay the paste in a buttered
soup-plate. Trim and notch the edges, and then put in the mixture. Bake
it about half an hour, in a moderate oven. Grate loaf-sugar over it,
before you send it to table.

COCOA-NUT PUDDING
A quarter of a pound of cocoa-nut, grated.
A quarter of a pound of
powdered white sugar.
Three ounces and a half of fresh butter.
The
whites only of six eggs.
A table-spoonful of wine and brandy mixed.

Half a tea-spoonful of rose-water.
Break up a cocoa-nut, and take the thin brown skin carefully off, with a
knife. Wash all the pieces in cold water, and then wipe them dry, with a
clean towel. Weigh a quarter of a pound of cocoa-nut, and grate it very
fine, into a soup-plate.
Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the liquor and rose-water
gradually to them.
Beat the whites only, of six eggs, till they stand alone on the rods; and
then stir the beaten white of egg, gradually, into the butter and sugar.
Afterwards, sprinkle in, by degrees, the grated cocoa-nut, stirring hard
all the time. Then stir all very well at the last.
Have ready a puff-paste, sufficient to cover the bottom, sides, and
edges of a soup-plate. Put in the mixture, and bake it in a moderate
oven, about half an hour.
Grate loaf-sugar over it, when cool.
ALMOND PUDDING.
Half a pound of sweet almonds, which will be reduced to a quarter of a
pound, when shelled and blanched.
An ounce of blanched bitter
almonds or peach-kernels.
The whites only, of six eggs.
A quarter
of a pound of butter.
A quarter of a pound of powdered white sugar.

A table-spoonful of mixed brandy, wine, and rose-water.
Shell