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New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
by Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · Page 150 of 240 · 83,971 words
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be served to eat with them. Or, when eggs are scarce, make the batter with flour, and small beer, ginger, &c. Or clean snow, with flour, and a very little milk, will serve as well as eggs. _Irish Pancakes._ Beat eight yelks and four whites of eggs: strain them into a pint of cream; put a grated nutmeg and sugar to your taste. Set three ounces of fresh butter on the fire, stir it, and as it warms, pour it to the cream, which should be warm when the eggs are put to it; then mix smooth almost half a pint of flour. Fry the pancakes very thin, the first with a bit of butter, but not the others. Serve several, one on another. _Fine Pancakes, fried without Butter, or Lard._ Beat six fresh eggs extremely well; mix, when strained, with a pint of cream, four ounces of sugar, a glass of wine, half a nutmeg grated, and as much flour as will make it almost as thick as ordinary pancake batter, but not quite. Heat the fryingpan tolerably hot, wipe it with a clean cloth; then pour in the batter, to make thin pancakes. _Bockings._ Mix three ounces of buckwheat flour, with a teacupful of warm milk, and a spoonful of yeast; let it rise before the fire about an hour; then mix four eggs, well beaten, and as much milk as will make the batter the usual thickness for pancakes, and fry them as they are done. _A Fraise._ Cut streaked bacon in thin slices an inch long: make a batter of a pint of milk, three eggs, and a large spoonful of flour; add salt and pepper: put a piece of fresh dripping in the pan, and, when hot, pour half the batter, and on it strew the bacon, then the remainder of the batter. Let it do gently; and be careful, in turning, that the bacon do not come to the pan. _Fritters._ Make them of any of the batters directed for pancakes by dropping a small quantity into the pan. Or make the plainer sort,
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