Saloop

New system of domestic cookery, forme... · Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · 1806

Source: New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (12)

a little water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
wine ↝ Wine, rice [Wine]
lemonpeel
sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
a small quantity of the powder, previously rubbed smooth, with a little cold water ↝ Baobab powder [Fruits and Fruit Juices]

for a pudding

half a pound of rice ↝ Rice, cooked, NFS [Rice]
four ounces of coarse sugar or treacle ↝ Flour, semolina, coarse and semi-coarse [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
four ounces of coarse sugar or treacle
two quarts of milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
two ounces of dripping

for Brewis

a very thick upper crust of bread ↝ Bread, vegetable [Yeast breads]
the pot where salt beef is boiling and near ready

Instructions (8)

Boil a little water, with wine, lemonpeel, and sugar, together.
Mix with a small quantity of the powder, previously rubbed smooth, with a little cold water.
Stir it all together, and boil it a few minutes.

Pudding for the poor

When the oven is hot, put into a deep coarse pan half a pound of rice, four ounces of coarse sugar or treacle, two quarts of milk, and two ounces of dripping.
Set it cold into the oven.
It will take a good while, but be an excellent solid food.

Brewis

Cut a very thick upper crust of bread and put it into the pot where salt beef is boiling and near ready.
It will attract some of the fat, and, when swelled out, will be no unpalatable dish to those who rarely taste meat.

Original Text

Saloop.

Boil a little water, with wine, lemonpeel, and sugar, together; then mix with a small quantity of the powder, previously rubbed smooth, with a little cold water; stir it all together, and boil it a few minutes.

I promised a few hints, to enable every family to assist the poor of their neighborhood at a very trivial expense; and these may be varied or amended at the discretion of the mistress.

Where cows are kept, a jug of skimmed milk is a valuable present.

When the oven is hot, a large pudding may be baked, and given to a sick or young family; and thus made, the trouble is little: into a deep coarse pan put half a pound of rice, four ounces of coarse sugar or treacle, two quarts of milk, and two ounces 265of dripping, set it cold into the oven. It will take a good while, but be an excellent solid food.

A very good meal may be bestowed in a thing called Brewis, which is thus made: cut a very thick upper crust of bread and put it into the pot where salt beef is boiling and near ready; it will attract some of the fat, and, when swelled out, will be no unpalatable dish to those who rarely taste meat.

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