The Skilful Cook Part 100

1 pint of boiling water.

_Method._--Take the yellow part of the lemon peel, cut very thinly, from one of the lemons.

Then remove the skin completely from them both.

Cut them into slices, and remove the pips.

Put the sliced lemon, thin peel, and sugar, into a jug; pour over the boiling water.

Cover, until cold, and then strain.

A Cup of Arrowroot.

_Ingredients_-- pint of milk.

1 dessertspoonful of arrowroot.

Castor sugar.

_Method._--Put the milk into a saucepan on the fire to boil.

Mix the arrowroot very smoothly with a little cold milk; when the milk boils pour in the arrowroot, and stir until the milk has thickened.

Add sugar to taste.

For water arrowroot, subst.i.tute water for milk.

Arrowroot Pudding.

_Ingredients_--Cup of arrowroot, made as in foregoing recipe.

1 or 2 eggs.

A little vanilla, or other flavouring.

_Method._--Beat the yolks one by one into the arrowroot, and add flavouring to taste.

Beat the whites up stiffly, and stir them in lightly.

Pour the mixture into a greased pie-dish.

Bake for a few minutes, and serve as quickly as possible.

Treacle Posset.

_Ingredients_-- pint of milk.

pint of treacle.

_Method._--Put the milk into a saucepan on the fire to boil.

When boiling, pour in the treacle.

This will curdle the milk.

Let it boil up again, and then strain it.

White-wine Whey.

_Ingredients_-- pint of milk.

1 winegla.s.s of sherry.

Sugar to taste.

_Method._--The same as in foregoing recipe. Sweeten to taste.

Orangeade.

_Ingredients_--2 oranges.

1 pint of boiling water.

3 lumps of sugar.

_Method._--Take the rind thinly from half an orange.

Put it into a jug.

Peel the oranges, and slice them, removing the pips.

Put them into the jug.

Pour the boiling water over, add the sugar, and cover closely until cold; then strain.

Toast and Water.

_Ingredients_--Toasted bread.

Water.

_Method._--Toast a piece of crust of bread nicely, being careful not to burn it.

Plunge it into a jug of cold water, and let it stand for thirty minutes.

Then strain the water from it.

Sago Gruel.

_Ingredients_-- oz. of sago.

pint of water.

2 lumps of sugar.