½-lb. flour.
½-lb. treacle.
½-lb. sugar.
½-lb. butter.
Boil the butter and treacle in a pan. Mix the flour, sugar, and ginger well together, then mix with the treacle and butter to a stiff cream. Drop on a baking sheet in small pieces, and when baked roll on a stick and leave to cool.
17. Marmalade.
Slice very thinly 12 Seville oranges and 2 lemons, carefully removing all pips. To every pound of pulp allow 3 pints of cold water. Let this stand for 24 hours, then boil till the chips are very tender and clear. Let this remain until the following day. To every pint of boiled fruit allow 1¼-lbs. lump sugar. Boil, stirring constantly until the syrup jellies and the chips are quite clear. Try the jelly on a saucer from time to time.
Patent Groats.
Take of Robinson’s Patent Groats one tablespoonful, mix with a wine-glassful of cold water, gradually added, into a SMOOTH paste, pour this into a stew-pan containing nearly a pint of boiling water, or milk, stir the gruel on the fire (while it boils) for ten minutes; pour it into a basin, add a pinch of salt and a little butter, or if more agreeable, some sugar, and a small quantity of spirits.
When gruel is made for an Invalid, butter had best be omitted.
VIII. BEVERAGES.
1. Apple Wine.
Slice a large, tart, cooking apple without peeling it, also a little lemon rind. Put all in a pan with 6 lumps of sugar and 1½-pints of cold water. Let it come slowly to nearly boiling point; draw it back from the fire and simmer slowly for a quarter of an hour. Strain into a jug.