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The Aunts' Cook Book

1922

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Presented as published in 1922. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Line baking-dish with good pastry. Pour in raw rice to hold it in shape while baking. Bake in moderate oven about IS minutes. Pour out rice (which can be kept for another occa- sion) and fill with either fresh peaches or fresh strawberries, which have been cut up (not mashed) and mixed with sugar. Make meringue of the beaten whites of two eggs. Spread over top and slip under the gas for few minutes till a light brown. Serve with whipped cream.Aunt Robbie's Fresh Fruit Pie I'm glad my education Enables me to stand Against the vile temptations Held out on every hand. Eschewing all the tittles With vanity replete Tm loyal to the victuals My grandsires used to eat. No flippant sugared notion My hunger shall appease Or *bate my soul's devotion To apple-pie and cheese. Eugene Field. Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gillman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked of the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding of Mr. Gillman's did for me." Recollections of Charles Lamb Leslie, I was happy to find my old friend, mince-pie, in the retinue of the feast, and finding him to be perfectly orthodox, and that I need not be ashamed of my predilection, I greeted him with all the warmth wherewith we usually greet an old and very genteel acquaintance. Christmas at Bracebridge Hall. Washington Irving. ICE CREAM AND ICES rj^ind reoTji Qmbrodfia c»|| unKho^yn to QoqI^' oj Ok Or Normaq T^in^^e^^^t now tt)e common [are Of young cxnol agecl» irj'/a(icj anc| l^ale. Yoo<^ of the. Million A the |^i||iorjaire Aunt Emery's Recipes for Auto Vacuum Ice Cream Freezer Use 2 cups of finely crushed ice to 1 of salt and fill ice side of freezer, pouring 1 cup of cold water in when freezer seems full, to settle ice, and then pack to top and put on same. Maple Mousse Bring yolks of 2 eggs to boil in one cup of maple syrup, stirring constantly. Set aside to become perfectly cold. Beat whites of 2 eggs stiff. Whip 1 pint of cream stiff.Maple Mousse 99 100 Ice Cream and Ices Combine, adding whites of eggs last. Pour into other side of freezer. Scrape down from sides of freezer with silver knife or wooden spoon every 20 minutes for the first hour. Then let stand for 2 hours more. Chocolate Ice Cream Make 2 cups of chocolate sauce and bring yolks of 3 eggs to boil in it, stirring constantly. Set aside to cool. Beat whites of eggs stiff. Whip 3 cups of cream stiff.Chocolate Ice Cream Combine, adding whites of egg last. Freeze as above. Any Fresh Fruit Sherbet Make a syrup of 2 cups sugar and 2 of water boiled 5 minutes and cooled.Any Fresh Fruit Sherbet Add to crushed and strained fruit juice. Freeze as above. Grandmother Holden's 'Arthur's Plain Ice Cream' (rich) 1 quart of cream cup of sugar 3^ pint of milk FlavoringGrandmother Holden's Arthur's Plain Ice Cream Put the milky sugar and a pint of the cream in a double boiler. Scald but do not boil. Set aside to cool. Whip the other pint of cream not too stiff, and add to the former mixture. Freeze and pack. Grandmother Holden's ^Arthur's Fruit Ice Cream' Make plain ice-cream without flavoring. Freeze to a mush and add crushed fruit. Continue freezing a few minutes, then pack. Ice Cream and Ices 101 Grandmother Holden's 'Arthur's Cafe Parfait' Yolks of 4 eggs beaten 1 cup of sugar syrup Cook in double boiler. Turn into bowl and beat till cold. Add a small quantity of melted gelatine and J/^ cup of extra strong cofFee. Fold into it a pint of cream whipped stiff and then pack. Serve in glasses with a spoonful of whipped cream on top. Grandmother Holden's 'Arthur's Maple Parfait' The yolks of 4 eggs beaten light A cupful of maple syrup