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366.—Capillaire
To a quart of water add three pounds of lump sugar, one pound of soft
sugar, and the whites and yolks of two eggs well beaten up; boil it
gently, and skim well; on the scum ceasing to rise, remove the pan
from the fire, add two ounces of the best orange-flower water, and
strain through flannel.
367.—Ceylon Moss, Seaweed, and Iceland Moss Preserves
Steep the moss or weed for two or three days in fresh water, changing
the water two or three times a day; wash it well once before boiling
it; to every seer or two pounds of the weed add a wineglassful of the
best vinegar; allow it to simmer over a gentle fire until it thickens,
so as to congeal on a glass; then strain the moss or weed through a
towel, pour the liquid into clarified sugar or syrup, and boil them
together for half an hour; pour the jelly into large wide dishes, and
when quite cold cut it into cakes. If desired, the jelly may be
coloured or tinted with cochineal.
368.—Guava Jelly
Select ripe guavas, and as they are peeled and quartered throw them
into a large bowl of fresh clean water; then boil them in as much
other clean water as will only cover the fruit, and when perfectly
tender, so as to dissolve to the touch, strain through a fine sieve or
towel without breaking or pressing the fruit, and allow it to drip
through for twelve to eighteen or twenty-four hours if necessary. Put
the juice on the fire again without a cover to the preserving-pan;
boil and skim well; add gradually good clean sugar to your taste; when
nearly done, add lime-juice in the proportion of ten large juicy limes
to every hundred guavas; after it has boiled until no more scum rises,
and the jelly is quite clear, pour it while the jelly is warm into
glass or stone jars, and cork them down when quite cold. A hundred
guavas will give two to two and a half jars of jelly, and will take
from two to two and a half hours’ cooking or boiling.
369.—Guava Cheese
After all the water or juice has drained from the guavas boiled for
jelly, pass the fruit or pulp through a sieve, rejecting the seeds;
add lime-juice and sugar to taste, and boil over a slow fire to a
consistency stiff enough for it to remain unmoved in a spoon; rub a
little butter in a mould, fill it with the cheese while hot, and place
it in a heat, or in an expiring oven, to dry; the colour may be
improved with the aid of cochineal.
370.—Mango Jelly
Peel and stone a hundred green mangoes, and cut each into four,
throwing them as they are ready into a solution of weak lime-water,
strained of all sediment. When all have been peeled and stoned, remove
them into a large vessel, pour in as much cold water as will entirely
cover them, and boil them until they are quite dissolved; then
carefully strain the liquid without pressing the fruit, and let it
drip all night. Boil the juice again in an open preserving-pan, and
cut away the scum as it rises; then add gradually good clean white
sugar until it is sweetened to taste; continue to boil steadily until
the scum has ceased to rise, and the jelly is quite clear and
transparent; allow some of it to drop on a plate and cool; if it
congeals, remove the pan and fill the bottles while the jelly is
slightly warm, and cork down when quite cold.
371.—Mango Marmalade
Pass through a sieve the pulp of the mangoes which had been boiled for
jelly; add plenty of clean white sugar, without quite destroying the
acidity of the fruit; boil it over a slow fire until it acquires the
thickness of guava cheese, and bottle while it is yet warm.
N.B.—This marmalade is will adapted for rolly-polly puddings, tarts,
mango fool, and the preparation of sauces for boiled goose, ducks, &c.
372.—Green Mango Preserve
Select mangoes slightly under the middling size, taking care that they
are not bruised or injured in any way. Steep them in clean water;
grate the outer coat, or peel very finely, so as to remove thoroughly
a fine coat of green from the surface; cut them sufficiently
lengthways to extract the stones, and then throw them into lime-water.
Remove them into a copper preserving-pan with clean water, and parboil
them, skimming them well; throw them into a sieve, and allow all the
water to drain away; have a large quantity of good syrup prepared,
allowing two pounds of sugar to every twenty-five mangoes; throw the
mangoes into the syrup, and allow them to simmer; cut away the scum
until the sugar inclines to crystallize; then remove the pan from the
fire, and put the preserve into wide-mouthed bottles; before corking
them down, it will be necessary to examine the syrup every two or
three days, and if it be found that it is becoming thin, it will have
to be reboiled; just as the boiling is about to be finished, the
mangoes ought to be put into it to warm up; this precaution must be
taken every time the syrup has been reboiled, until there is no
further appearance of fermentation; the bottles may then be securely
corked down, and the preserve will keep good for years.
373.—Another Way
Peel and stone good middling-sized green mangoes, and steep them in
lime-water; parboil them in fresh water, and then in syrup until it
thickens; put them into bottles, and examine them daily; if any signs
of fermentation appear, reboil the syrup, and put in the fruit at the
end of the boiling; the reboiling to be continued until the syrup has
ceased to ferment.
The difference between this and the foregoing preserve is only in
appearance: the former will be of a greenish tint, and the latter of a
rich light brown.
N.B.—Care must be taken to have plenty of syrup at the starting, so
that at the end of the two or three reboilings there may be enough
left to cover the fruit.
374.—Pine-apple Preserve
Take care that the pines are not green, nor yet quite ripe; remove the
peel, cutting it deeply, and then all the seeds and eyes; cut each
pine into six slices, lay them in a preserving-pan, and sprinkle over
each layer a good quantity of sugar, a few sticks of cinnamon, and a
few bay-leaves, covering the uppermost layer with a larger quantity of
sugar; allow them to simmer over a tolerably brisk fire until the
sugar has all melted; then reduce the fire, and continue to simmer
until the pines have quite changed colour and become tender; remove
them out of the syrup into a colander, and allow them to drain, but
continue to boil the syrup with all that drops from the fruit until it
has thickened; then return the fruit into the syrup and finish the
boiling. Bottle when quite cool, but before corking them for good,
ascertain the state of the syrup every two or three days; if it shows
signs of fermentation, remove it from the fruit and reboil it; this
operation must be continued until the syrup has ceased to ferment; the
fruit is not to be reboiled, but only returned into the syrup when
the boiling is about to be finished.
375.—Another Way
Finish the preserve by boiling the sliced pines and sugar together
until the fruit has become of quite a dark colour, and the syrup so
thick that it is not likely to ferment. There is, however, the
objection to this method that the fruit becomes more or less leathery,
and is not mellow like that preserved according to the foregoing
recipe.
376.—Peach Preserve
Clean the peaches, slit them with a silver or plated knife, and remove
the stones; have a very strong syrup ready, and while it is boiling
hot throw in the peaches, and let them stand over a slow fire for six
to eight hours; then remove them from the fire, and twelve hours after
drain off the syrup and reboil it; return the fruit into the syrup,
and if it shows any disposition to ferment, boil it again; when
satisfied it will not ferment any more, add a little brandy, say a
wineglassful to every fifty peaches, and boil the whole over a slow
fire for two hours. Bottle when quite cold. The kernels from the
stones may be put in if desired.
377.—Another Way
Clean the peaches, and put them with the stones into a preserving-pan
with sufficient water to cover them; allow them to simmer until quite
tender, cutting away the scum, and then spread them on a dish to cool.
Make a syrup, allowing three-quarters of a pound of sugar to every
pound of fruit, and while it is boiling hot put in the peaches, and
boil them gently until the syrup is quite thick. Two days after drain
off the syrup and reboil it, returning the fruit into it while hot; if
at the end of twenty-four or thirty-six hours it has become thin
again, it must be reboiled; a little brandy should be added finally.
N.B.—If the peaches are boiled in two waters, the first may be thrown
away, but the second, in which the peaches should be boiled a longer
time, may be taken for making the syrup.
378.—Pulwal Preserve
Take two seers or four pounds of large full-grown pulwals without any
decay; peel, slit, remove the seeds, and throw them into cold water;
wash them thoroughly, and parboil them in clean water; then put them
in a colander, and set them aside to cool. Prepare a good strong syrup
of half a seer of sugar and a quarter of a seer or half a pound of
green ginger well bruised; throw the pulwals in, and allow them to
simmer until the syrup thickens. They should be removed immediately
the colour becomes quite brown, but the syrup must be kept boiling
till it has acquired the proper consistency; return the pulwals into
the syrup, and, if necessary, reboil it two or three days after, if it
appears to have become thin, or inclined to ferment.
379.—Another Way
Take two seers or four pounds of good large fresh pulwals; thoroughly
grate the outer surface, half slit them, remove the seeds, and throw
them into water; parboil them in clean water, remove them into a
colander, and allow them to drain and dry; then stuff each pulwal with
some bruised green ginger, tie or bind them with fine cotton, put them
into a strong syrup made of half a seer of sugar, and allow them to
simmer until they change colour; remove them, and continue to boil the
syrup until it thickens; then return them into the syrup, and in two
or three days reboil the syrup, if it has become thin, or appears
inclined to ferment.
380.—Candied Pulwal
The same process is observed as directed for pulwal preserve, the
chief difference being that hot or boiling clarified sugar or syrup
must be used, and the preserve exposed to the sun, spread out on fresh
oiled paper, to dry.
381.—Tipparee (commonly called Gooseberry) Preserve
Shell or remove the pods of the tipparees, and wipe away all dust;
prick each with a bamboo or other wooden pin, and put them into a
preserving-pan; strew some sugar over each layer of fruit, making the
final layer of sugar thicker than the others, and simmer the whole
until all the juice has been extracted, and the
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