Gingerbread Nuts
A historical recipe from The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822).
A historical recipe
The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Project Gutenberg eBook #29084.
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Source and licence
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29084 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29084). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- a pound of butter
- two pounds of treacle
- an ounce of pounded ginger
- two ounces of preserved lemon
- two ounces of preserved angelica
- a tin plate
- two eggs
Method
- Carefully melt half a pound of butter, and stir it up in two pounds of treacle.
- Add an ounce of pounded ginger, two ounces of preserved lemon and orange peel, two ounces of preserved angelica cut small, one of coriander seed pounded, and the same of caraway whole.
- Mix them together, with two eggs, and as much flour as will bring it to a fine paste.
- Make it into nuts, put them on a tin plate, and bake them in a quick oven.
- GLASS.
- Broken glass may be mended with the same cement as china, or if it be only cracked, it will be sufficient to moisten the part with the white of an egg, strewing it over with a little powdered lime, and instantly applying a piece of fine linen.
- Another cement for glass is prepared from two parts of litharge, one of quick lime, and one of flint glass, each separately and finely powdered, and the whole worked up into a paste with drying oil.
- This compound is very durable, and acquires a greater degree of hardness when immersed in water.