_Ingredients._—½ quartern of dough, boiling water. _Mode._—Make a very
light dough as for bread, using to mix it, milk, instead of water;
divide it into 7 or 8 dumplings; plunge them into boiling water, and
boil them for 20 minutes. Serve the instant they are taken up, as they
spoil directly, by falling and becoming heavy; and in eating them do
not touch them with a knife, but tear them apart with two forks. They
may be eaten with meat gravy, or cold butter and sugar; and if not
convenient to make the dough at home, a little from the baker’s answers
as well, only it must be placed for a few minutes near the fire, in a
basin with a cloth over it, to let it rise again before it is made into
dumplings. _Time._—20 minutes. _Average cost_, 4_d._ _Sufficient_ for 5
or 6 persons. _Seasonable_ at any time.
YEAST, to Make, for Bread.
_Ingredients._—1½ oz. of hops, 3 quarts of water, 1 lb. of bruised
malt, ½ pint of yeast. _Mode._—Boil the hops in the water for 20
minutes; let it stand for about 5 minutes, then add it to 1 lb. of
bruised malt prepared as for brewing. Let the mixture stand covered
till about lukewarm; then put in not quite ½ pint of yeast; keep it
warm, and let it work 3 or 4 hours; then put it into small ½-pint
bottles (ginger-beer bottles are the best for the purpose), cork them
well, and tie them down. The yeast is now ready for use; it will keep
good for a few weeks, and 1 bottle will be found sufficient for 18
lbs. of flour. When required for use, boil 3 lbs. of potatoes without
salt, mash them in the same water in which they were boiled, and rub
them through a colander. Stir in about ½ lb. of flour; then put in the
yeast, pour it in the middle of the flour, and let it stand warm on
the hearth all night, and in the morning let it be quite warm when it
is kneaded. The bottles of yeast require very careful opening, as it
is generally exceedingly ripe. _Time._—20 minutes to boil the hops and
water, the yeast to work 3 or 4 hours. _Sufficient._—½ pint sufficient
for 18 lbs. of flour.
YEAST, Kirkleatham.
_Ingredients._—2 oz. of hops, 4 quarts of water, ½ lb. of flour, ½
pint of yeast. _Mode._—Boil the hops and water for 20 minutes; strain,
and mix with the liquid ½ lb. of flour and not quite ½ pint of yeast.
Bottle it up, and tie the corks down. When wanted for use, boil
potatoes according to the quantity of bread to be made (about 3 lbs.
are sufficient for about a peck of flour); mash them, add to them ½ lb.
of flour, and mix about ½ pint of the yeast with them; let this mixture
stand all day, and lay the bread to rise the night before it is wanted.
_Time._—20 minutes to boil the hops and water. _Sufficient._—½ pint of
this yeast sufficient for a peck of flour, or rather more.
Asque ad Finem.
HER hand has lost its cunning—the firm, true hand that wrote these
_formulæ_, and penned the information contained in this little book.
Cold in the silent tomb lie the once nimble, useful fingers,—now
nerveless, unable for anything, and ne’er to do work more in this
world! Exquisite palate, unerring judgment, sound common sense, refined
tastes,—all these had the dear Lady who has gone ere her youth had
scarcely come. But four times seven years were all she passed in this
world; and since the day she became wedded wife—now nearly nine years
past—her greatest, chiefest aims were to provide for the comfort and
pleasure of those she loved and had around her, and to employ her
best faculties for the use of her sisters, Englishwomen generally.
Her surpassing affection and devotion led her to find her happiness
in aiding, with all her heart and soul, the Husband whom she richly
blessed and honoured with her abounding love.
Her Works speak for themselves; and, although taken from this world
in the very height of health and strength, and in the early days of
womanhood, she felt that satisfaction—so great to all who strive with
good intent and warm will—of knowing herself regarded with respect and
gratitude,
Her labours are ended here; in a purer atmosphere she dwells; and may
be, in the land beyond the skies, she has nobler work to accomplish.
Her plans for the future cannot be wholly carried out: her Husband knew
them all, and will diligently devote himself to their execution, as far
as may be. The remembrance of her wishes,—always for the private and
public welfare,—and the companionship of her two little boys,—too young
to know the virtues of their good Mother,—this memory, this presence,
will nerve the Father, left alone, to continue to do his duty: in which
he will follow the example of his Wife, for her duty no woman has ever
better accomplished than the late
=Isabella Mary Beeton.=
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