Ice Cream & Mushroom Ketchup (1736); Saratoga Potatoes (1874)

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SARATOGA POTATOES (continued)

   I had used the Columbia University 1876 copy, but the NYPL has the 1874 copy, which I just checked.  Moon's fried potatoes are on the same page.


Author Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897, ed.
Title The middle states [microform] : a handbook for travellers. A guide to the chief cities and popular resorts of the middle states, and to their scenery and historic attractions; with the northern frontier from Niagara Falls to Montreal; also, Baltimore, Washington, and northern Virginia. With seven maps and fifteen plans.
Imprint Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company, 1874.

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ICE CREAM; MUSHROOM KETCHUP


Author Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742.
Title Dictionarium domesticum, being a new and compleat houshold dictionary for the use both of city and country ...
Imprint London, Printed for C. Hitch, 1736.
Note Micropublished in "History of Women." New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, Inc., 1975.


   Why haven't more people cited from this?  A Google Groups check shows only two hits, and one is in Chinese!
   Surely, "ice cream" and "mushroom ketchup" are worth recording?
   Why is this microfilmed in the "History of Women" collection?  The author is a man.  The subject is food.  Only women know food?  Whatever the reason, "History of Women" means this book is available in most all major college libaries.
   There are no page numbers, but the first two letters of the alphabetical listing are on top of the pages.


Pg. BE:  To make DUTCH BEEF.

Pg. BE:  Another way of BEEF Stakes.

Pg. BR:  FRENCH BREAD.

Pg. BU:  To make Spanish BUTTER.

Pg. CA:  PORTUGAL CAKES.

Pg. CA:  CATCHUP of MUSHROOMS.
   Fill a stew-pan full of the large flap mushrooms, and the tops of those that are commonly wip'd for pickling, set it on a gentle fire with a handful of salt; they will yield a great deal of liquor; strain it, and add a quarter of a pound of shallots, two cloves of garlick, pepper, ginger cloves, mace and a bay leaf; boil and scum it very well, let it stand till it is quite cold; bottle it and stop it closed.
  (How bad is even the revised OED on food?  Here's how bad. OED revised "mushroom ketchup" in March 2003.  OED's first cite is 1789.  Now, check the NYPL online catalog.  Subject="ketchup."  There are two hits, but only one covers the subject.  It is PURE KETCHUP (1996) by Andrew F. Smith.  That book has "mushroom ketchup" from 1728.  No one could find this?  Andrew Smith is writing a book for Oxford University Press.  OED doesn't know who he is, doesn't know his books?  Not good!--ed.)

Pg. CH:  To make a plain SAGE CHEESE.

Pg. CH:  To make slip Coat CHEESE otherwise call'd CREAM CHEESE. (...)  To imitate CHESHIRE CHEESE.

Pg. CH:  To imitate GLOCESTER SHIRE CHEESE. (...) To make a Marygold CHEESE.

Pg. CH:  To make BUCKINGHAM CHEESE.  (...) Angelot CHEESE. (...) Chedder CHEESE.

Pg. CH:  STILTON CHEESE.

Pg. CH:  CHOCOLATE...CHOCOLATE PUFFS.

Pg. CR:  CHOCOLATE CREAM.

Pg. HO:  To BARBECUE a HOG.

Pg. IC:  ICEING for CAKE.
   Whip the whites of half a score eggs up to a froth, and to two pounds of double-refin'd sugar sifted, add two grains of ambergrease and six spoonfuls of orange flower water, whip these together all the while the cakes are in baking, and when they come out ice them.
         To ICE CREAM.
   Fill tin iceing pots with any sorts of cream you please, either plain or sweetened, or you may fruit it; shut the pots very close; you must allow three pound of ice to a pot, breaking the ice very small; laying some great pieces at the bottom and top.
   Lay some straw in the bottom of a pail, then lay in the ice, putting in amongst it a pound of bay salt; set in your pots of cream, and lay the ice and salt between every pot, so that they may not touch; but the ice must be lai'd round them on every side; and let a good quantity be laid on the top; cover the pail with straw, set it in a cellar, where no sun or light comes, and it will be frozen in four hours time; but you may let it stand longer; and take it out just as you use it; if you hold it in your hand and it will slip out.
   If you would freeze any sort of fruit, as cherries, currants, raspberries, strawberries, _&c._ fill the tin-pots with the fruit; but as hollow as you can; put lemonade to them, made with spring-water, and lemon-juice sweetened; put enough in the pots to make the fruit hang together and set them in ice as you do the cream.

Pg. ME:  MELASSES.

Pg. NU:  NUN'S BISCUIT.

Pg. OA:  OAT-CAKES.

Pg. OC:  An OATMEAL PUDDING.

Pg. PA:  A PANADA for a weak Stomach. (...) PANCAKES.

Pg. PU:  PRAWLINS of fry'd ALMONDS.

Pg. PY:  PARIS PYES.

Pg. WA:  To make DUTCH WAFERS.
(Belgian waffles?--ed.)