The Boston cooking-school cook book

cups sugar 1 quart Burgundy 1 cup rum ⅓ cup brandy ⅓ cup Benedictine 1 quart Vichy 3 sliced oranges ½ can pineapple Juice 2 lemons 1 cup tea infusion Ice. Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar ten minutes. Mix remaining ingredients, _except ice_, sweeten to taste with syrup, and pour into punch-bowl over a large piece of ice. Unfermented Grape Juice 10 lbs. grapes 1 cup water 3 lbs. sugar Put grapes and water in granite stewpan. Heat until stones and pulp separate; then strain through jelly bag, add sugar, heat to boiling-point, and bottle. This will make one gallon. When served, it should be diluted one-half with water. [Illustration: PUNCH SERVICE.—_Page 43._ ] [Illustration: CLARET CUP SERVICE.—_Page 45._ ] [Illustration: DOUBLE LOAVES OF MILK AND WATER BREAD.—_Page 54._ ] [Illustration: BOSTON BROWN BREAD.—_Page 57._ ] Claret Cup 1 quart claret wine ½ cup Curaçoa 1 quart Apollinaris ⅓ cup orange juice 2 tablespoons brandy Sugar Mint leaves Cucumber rind 12 strawberries Mix ingredients, except Apollinaris, using enough sugar to sweeten to taste. Stand on ice to chill, and add chilled Apollinaris just before serving. Sauterne Cup 1 quart soda water 2 cups Sauterne wine Rind ½ orange Rind ½ lemon 2 tablespoons Orange Curaçoa ½ cup sugar (scant) Mint leaves Few slices orange 12 strawberries Add Curaçoa to rind of fruit and sugar; cover, and let stand two hours. Add Sauterne, strain, and stand on ice to chill. Add chilled soda water, mint leaves, slices of orange, and strawberries. The success of cups depends upon the addition of charged water just before serving. CHAPTER IV BREAD AND BREAD MAKING Bread is the most important article of food, and history tells of its use thousands of years before the Christian era. Many processes have been employed in making and baking; and as a result, from the first flat cake has come the perfect loaf. The study of bread making is of no slight importance, and deserves more attention than it receives. Considering its great value, it seems unnecessary and wrong to find poor bread on the table;