Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

by Eliza Leslie

Third Edition—With an Appendix.

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SEVENTY-FIVE

RECEIPTS

FOR

PASTRY, CAKES, AND SWEETMEATS.

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BY A LADY OF PHILADELPHIA.

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THIRD EDITION.

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BOSTON:
MUNROE AND FRANCIS, NO. 128 WASHINGTON-STREET
C. S. FRANCIS, 252 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK.

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1830.

Preface
Weights and Measures

Table of Contents

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PART THE FIRST.

Preliminary remarks	7
Puff Paste	9
Common Paste	12
Mince Pies	13
Plum Pudding	14
Lemon Pudding	15
Orange Pudding	17
Cocoa Nut Pudding	18
Almond Pudding	19
A Cheesecake	19
Sweet Potato Pudding	21
Pumpkin Pudding	21
Gooseberry Pudding	22
Baked Apple Pudding	23
Fruit Pies	23
Oyster Pie	25
Beef Steak Pie	26
Indian Pudding	27
Batter Pudding	28
Bread Pudding	29
Rice Pudding	29

Boston Pudding	30
Fritters	31
Fine Custards	31
Plain Custards	32
Rice Custards	33
Cold Custards	34
Curds and Whey	34
A Trifle	35
Whipt Cream	36
Floating Island	37
Ice Cream	37
Calf's-feet Jelly	38
Blanc-mange	40

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PART THE SECOND.

General Directions	45
Queen Cake	47
Pound Cake	48
Black Cake, or Plum Cake	50
Sponge Cake	51
Almond Cake	52
French Almond Cake	54
Maccaroons	55
Apees	56
Jumbles	57
Kisses	58
Spanish Bunns	58
Rusk	60
Indian Pound Cake	61
Cup Cake	61
Loaf Cake	62
Sugar Biscuits	62
Milk Biscuits	63
Butter Biscuits	64
Gingerbread Nuts	65
Common Gingerbread	66
Lafayette Gingerbread	67

A Dover Cake	68
Crullers	69
Dough Nuts	70
Waffles	70
Soft Muffins	71
Indian Batter Cakes	72
Flannel Cakes	72
Rolls	73

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PART THE THIRD.

General Directions	77
Apple Jelly	78
Red Currant Jelly	78
Black Currant Jelly	79
Gooseberry Jelly	80
Grape Jelly	80
Peach Jelly	81
Preserved Quinces	81
Preserved Pippins	82
Preserved Peaches	83
Preserved Crab-Apples	84
Preserved Plums	84
Preserved Strawberries	85
Preserved Cranberries	85
Preserved Pumpkin	87
Preserved Pine-Apple	88
Raspberry Jam	88

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APPENDIX.

Miscellaneous receipts of dishes in use at Supper Parties

89

A-la-mode Beef	91
Chicken Pudding	92
A boned Turkey	93
Collared Pork	94
Spiced Oysters	95
Stewed Oysters	96
Oyster Soup	96
Fried Oysters	96
Baked Oysters	97
Oyster Patties	97
Oyster Sauce	97
Pickled Oysters	98
Chicken Salad	98
Lobster Salad	99
Stewed Mushrooms	99
Peach Cordial	100
Cherry Bounce	100
Raspberry Cordial	100
Blackberry Cordial	101
Ginger Beer	101
Jelly Cake	102
Rice Cakes for Breakfast	103
Ground Rice-Pudding	103
Tomata Ketchup	103
Yeast	104