Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery: The "All About It" Books

into a well-tinned saucepan, with the water, and, when the former is dissolved, set it over a moderate fire, adding the well-beaten egg before the mixture gets warm, and stir it well together. When it boils, remove the scum as it rises, and keep it boiling until no more appears, and the syrup looks perfectly clear; then strain it through a fine sieve or muslin bag, and put it back into the saucepan. Boil it again like caramel, until it is brittle, when a little is dropped in a basin of cold water: it is then sufficiently boiled. Add a little lemon-juice and a few drops of essence of lemon, and let it stand for a minute or two. Have ready a marble slab or large dish, rubbed over with salad-oil; pour on it the sugar, and cut it into strips with a pair of scissors: these strips should then be twisted, and the barley-sugar stored away in a very dry place. It may be formed into lozenges or drops, by dropping the sugar in a very small quantity at a time on to the oiled slab or dish. _Time._—¼ hour. _Average cost_, 7_d._ _Sufficient_ for 5 or 6 sticks. BARLEY-WATER, to make. _Ingredients._—2 oz. of pearl barley, 2 quarts of boiling water, 1 pint of cold water. _Mode._—Wash the barley in cold water; put it into a saucepan with the above proportion of cold water, and when it has boiled for about ¼ hour, strain off the water, and add the 2 quarts of fresh boiling water. Boil it until the liquid is reduced one half; strain it, and it will be ready for use. It may be flavoured with lemon-peel, after being sweetened, or a small piece may be simmered with the barley. When the invalid may take it, a little lemon-juice gives this pleasant drink in illness a very nice flavour; as does also a small quantity of port wine. _Time._—To boil until the liquid is reduced one half. _Sufficient_ to make 1 quart of barley-water. BATTER PUDDING, Baked. _Ingredients._—1½ pint of milk, 4 tablespoonfuls of flour,