Recipes Featuring Nutmeg
- Caramel Custard | 2 cups milk
2 cups milk
yolks of 4 eggs
7 tablespoons sugar
speck of salt
nutmeg, or vanilla
1 tablespoon water
- Spiced Smelts
20 large smelts
Vinegar
1/2 pound salt
1/4 pound farina
1 teaspoon black pepper
4 bay leaves
3/4 teaspoon saltpeter
1/2 teaspoon ginger
3/4 teaspoon red pepper
3/4 teaspoon crushed cloves - Scotch Pie
Apples
2 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour
milk
2 tablespoons butter
pinch of salt
1 tablespoon sugar
nutmeg
whipped cream
- Plum Cake | 1 large cup butter
1 large cup butter
2 cups sugar (heaped)
12 eggs, beaten separately
4 cups sifted flour
1 pound citron cut in thin slices
3 pounds, raisins, stoned and halved
1 1/2 pounds currants
1/2 pound da - Election Cake
3 cups milk
4 cups sugar
1 cup yeast
2 cups butter
3 eggs
1/2 nutmeg
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1 lb raisins
1/2 cup brandy - Stewed Turtle (Terrapin) with Cream
2 heaping Tbsps butter
1 Tbsp flour
1 pint cream
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
Small pinch of cayenne
1 pint turtle meat
4 egg yolks, well beaten
1/2 cup Madeira wine
- Pickled Butternuts and Walnuts
100 butternuts and walnuts
Brine
1 ounce black pepper
1 ounce ginger root
1/2 ounce cloves
1/2 ounce mace
1/2 ounce nutmeg
2 large spoonfuls mustard seed
1 gallon cider vinegar
- Lemon Pickle | Lemons
Lemons
Salt
Vinegar
Nutmeg, grated
Mace
Whole pepper
- Mince-Meat Pies
Tongue
3 pounds of fresh beef suet
3 pounds of apples
1 pound of jar raisins
4 pounds of currants
1 pound of white sugar
1/2 ounce of mace
1 1/4 ounce each of nutmeg
Cloves
Cinnamon
3 half-p - Sardines a la Sicilian
2 1/4 pounds large sardines
7 ounce sifted crumbs
1/3 pound butter
3/4 cup raisins
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
2 ounce pignons (about)
2 ounce anchovy fillets
1 small piece garlic
Pinch parsley
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