SC - OT, OOP chocolate-potato truffles was Citron and Potato

[Terri Millette]

"Nice drippings" refers to the bacon grease at the top of the jar without
all the brown bits.

_saleratus_  IIRC, was a precursor to baking soda, and yes they are talking
about the smell.

I'll have to look up the last.

Raoghnailt
Stan Wyrm, Artemisia
rygbee at montana.com
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From: Rayne and Richard <PRIDEelectric at centuryinter.net>
To: <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 10:20 p.m.
Subject: SC - redacting? help with words


> Unto the List,
>
> Although I love feastcratting and most of the facets of it, my real
cooking love
> is post-period.  I collect cookbooks from the 1800s through to the 1940s.
I do
> this not so much for the recipes but for the sociology within each page.
>
> i.e (from my newest addition "The Young Housekeeper's Friend" by Mrs.
Cornelius
> copyright 1859)  - first off this woman has no first name....she is her
> husband's wife.  And speaking of husbands....my husband loves this quote
from
> page 9 - "Many a day-laborer, on his return at evening from his hard toil,
is
> repelled by the sight of a disorganized house and a comfortless supper;
and
> perhaps is met by a cold eye instead of "the thriftie wifie's smile;" and
he
> makes his escape to the grog-shop or the underground gambling-room.....
Every
> woman is invested with a degree of power over the happiness and virtue of
> others.  She cannot escape using it, and she cannot innocently pervert
it".
> Don't you just love it????   ;-)
>
> Now to my questions:
>
> Please help me translate the following sentences.  My problem words are
> underlined:
>
> Under baking bread:  "Some people invariably use _saleratus_ in bread, and
there
> are tables where the _effluvia_ of this article, and the deep yellow color
of
> the bread offend the senses before it is tasted."   Q - is saleratus
baking
> soda?  and by effluvia does the author mean smell or aroma?
>
> Under Hard Molasses Gingerbread ingredients - "A half a pint of molasses,
a gill
> of butter, a half a gill of _nice drippings_, half a gill of sour milk,
two
> teaspoonfuls of saleratus, and the same of ginger".  Q - nice
drippings????  as
> opposed to "bad or nasty drippings"????
>
> Under making butter - this sentence comes after the straining the milk and
> allowing the cream to rise part:  "Those who have ice throughout the
summer,
> have a valuable aid in making butter.  A piece as large as a peach, should
be
> put into a pan containing three quarts of milk as soon as it is placed in
the
> closet.  The milk will not sour as soon, and of course, will afford more
cream.
> Skim the cream as soon as the milk has become _loppord_, which will, in
hot
> weather, be in about thirty hours."   Q - "loppord"????
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> In gratitude allow me to pass along some of Mrs. Cornelius' wonderful
advice and
> recommendations.  If you ever find yourself short on freezer/refrigerator
space
> and have some beef that you need to store remember:  "If you wish to keep
it
> longer than two days, wrap it in a piece of cloth (no matter how thin),
and lay
> it in a charcoal bin, and throw a shovel of coal over it."
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rayne
>
>
>
>
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