Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie by Eliza Leslie
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Beat the eggs well and stir them gradually into the milk. Add the
salt, and stir in flour enough to make a thick batter. Fry them in lard, and serve them up hot. Eat them with wine and sugar. They are improved by stirring in a table-spoonful of yeast. These are excellent with the addition of cold stewed apple, stirred into the mixtures in which case use less flour. FINE CUSTARDS. A quart of milk or cream. The yoke only, of sixteen eggs. Six ounces of powdered white sugar. A large handful of peach-leaves or half an ounce of peach kernels or bitter almonds, broken in pieces. A table-spoonful of rose-water. A nutmeg. Boil in the milk the cinnamon, and the peach-leaves, or peach-kernels. When it has boiled, set it away to get cold. As soon as it is cold, strain it through a sieve, to clear it from the cinnamon, peach-leaves, &c. and stir into it gradually, the sugar, spice, and rose-water. Beat the yolks of sixteen eggs very light, and stir them by |
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