Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 3, 2024

Slash With Knife – A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton states when you think it is half roasted ... slash it with a knife...down to the bone on both sides.  This is to allow the gravy to run.  After cutting, basting of the roast stops.

The receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton states when you think it is half roasted … slash it with a knife…down to the bone on both sides.  This is to allow the gravy to run.  After cutting, basting of the roast stops.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 1, 2024

Fat Drop Away – A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton needed to be roasted with a quick fire that the fat may drop away.  If you look closely at the picture, the fat is dripping from the roast into the grisset as the shoulder is just starting to begin roasting.

The receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton needed to be roasted with a quick fire that the fat may drop away.  If you look closely at the picture, the fat is dripping from the roast into the grisset as the shoulder is just starting to begin roasting.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 29, 2024

A Quick Fire – A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The first instructions for the receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton was roast it with a quick fire.  A good bed of embers is being established to provide a quick roasting temperature and I am feeling the heat coming to the roast with my hand to make certain.

The first instructions for the receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton was roast it with a quick fire.  A good bed of embers is being established to provide a quick roasting temperature and I am feeling the heat coming to the roast with my hand to make certain.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 27, 2024

Shoulder of Mutton-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

Mutton is the meat from a sheep that is older than one year of age but typically the sheep is two or three years old.  It is a shoulder of mutton that is on the spit for the receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton.

Mutton is the meat from a sheep that is older than one year of age but typically the sheep is two or three years old.  It is a shoulder of mutton that is on the spit for the receipt (recipe) To roast a Shoulder of Mutton.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 25, 2024

Bake on Tin Plates-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the flour, sugar, butter, ginger, nutmeg, and treacle has been rolled and cut with a tea cup into cakes, the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes were baked on a tin plate in a bake oven coaled to create a slack oven.

After the flour, sugar, butter, ginger, nutmeg, and treacle has been rolled and cut with a tea cup into cakes, the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes were baked on a tin plate in a bake oven coaled to create a slack oven.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 21, 2024

Cut with a Tea Cup-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the flour has been added to make the Bread stiff for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes roll it out ... and cut them out with a Tea Cup.

After the flour has been added to make the Bread stiff for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes roll it out … and cut them out with a Tea Cup.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 19, 2024

The Bread Stiff-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the ginger and nutmeg have been added to the mixture of butter, sugar, treacle and cream for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes, take three pounds of flour ... and make up the Bread stiff.  I made one-third of the receipt and weighed out one pound of flour on my balance scales.

After the ginger and nutmeg have been added to the mixture of butter, sugar, treacle and cream for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes, take three pounds of flour … and make up the Bread stiff.  I made one-third of the receipt and weighed out one pound of flour on my balance scales.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 17, 2024

Large Nutmeg Grated-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the ginger was mixed with the butter, sugar, flour, treacle and cream for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes a large nutmeg grated was added.

After the ginger was mixed with the butter, sugar, treacle and cream for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes a large nutmeg grated was added.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 15, 2024

Two Ounces Ginger-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes calls for two ounces of Ginger beat fine as pictured on my balance scales.  Since I prepared one third the receipt using one pound and not three of flour, I added one third the ginger.  

The receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes calls for two ounces of Ginger beat fine as pictured on my balance scales.  Since I prepared one third the receipt using one pound and not three of flour, I added one third the ginger.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | March 13, 2024

Treakle and Cream-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

Treakle (molasses) and cream were heated in the copper pot and added to the butter and sugar for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger-Bread Cakes.  For the full receipt take a Pound of Treakle, a quarter of a Pint of Cream, make them warm together.  

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