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The Housekeeper's Valuable Present; Or, Lady's Closet Companion / Being a New and Complete Art of Preparing Confects, According to Modern Practice

Chapter 1: THE HOUSEKEEPER’s VALUABLE PRESENT:
By cook Robert Abbot
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A practical manual of confectionery and household sweetmaking that opens with methods for clarifying and boiling sugar to specific degrees and continues with detailed, procedural recipes for preserving and candying fruits, making jams, marmalades, pastes, syrups, jellies, blancmange, and frozen creams. The text further covers cordials, made wines, brandied fruits, and a variety of biscuits and rich cakes, offering presentation and storage notes. Instructions reflect the author's professional apprenticeship and practice, aiming to give domestic cooks clear, repeatable techniques for producing elegant confections and preserves.

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Title: The Housekeeper's Valuable Present; Or, Lady's Closet Companion

Author: cook Robert Abbot

Release date: January 9, 2019 [eBook #58663]

Language: English

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THE
HOUSEKEEPER’s
VALUABLE PRESENT:

OR,
Lady’s Closet Companion.
BEING A
NEW AND COMPLETE
ART OF PREPARING
CONFECTS,
ACCORDING TO
MODERN PRACTICE.
Comprized under the following Parts; viz.
I. Different Methods and Degrees of boiling and clarifying Sugar.
II. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Syrups, &c.
III. Methods of making Marmalades, Jams, Pastes, &c.
IV. Methods of making Syrups, Custards, Jellies, Blanch-mange, Conserves, Syllabubs, &c.
V. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Brandy.
VI. Methods of making a Variety of Biscuits, rich Cakes, &c. &c.
VII. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working Ice Creams.
VIII. Methods of preparing Cordials and made Wines.
With a Variety of other useful and elegant Articles.
By ROBERT ABBOT,
Late apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter,
Confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR;
And sold by C. COOKE, No. 17, Pater-noster Row;
and all other Booksellers in Town and Country.
[Price 2s. sewed, or 2s. 6d. neatly bound.]