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The "Queen" cookery books: Ices

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Empress Rice. — Put 3oz. of rice on with enough cold water to cover it, bring this to the boil, rinse well in cold water, then put it on with a pint of single cream or new milk, 3oz. of caster sugar, and the finely pared rind of a lemonEmpress Rice ; let it boil till the rice is tender, then lift out the lemon peel, and when cool add to the rice half a pint of stiffly whipped cream, put it into a border mould, or a mould with a pipe, and set it in the ice cave for two or three hours. Serve with a rich macedoine of any kind of mixed fniit, frozen in liqueur flavoured syrujD, or with a good compote of fruit to taste, or whipped cream mixed with mashed strawberries, and set in the cave until perfectly cold. Any rich rice, semolina, rice flour, or other cereal pudding is nice if frozen in the cave and served with an iced compote, and makes a great and wholesome treat for the children. Pruit fools, thickened with a little custard or whipped cream, can be first frozen and then moulded with excellent effect, especially if served with a compote of any kind of fruit. ICED PUDDINGS, &c. 73 Plomhiere de f raises (Mrs. A. B. Marshall). — Freeze one pint of strawberry water ice till quite dry, and one of vanilla custard or cream ice ; line a tall bombe mould with the strawberry ice, and fill up with the vanilla ice, set in the cave and freeze for two hours ; dip in cold water, and serve on a layer of teased-out wadding. Ponding Tutti Frutti. — Make an Italian meringue with one white of egg and a little sugar syrup ; and also make a custard with the yolks of eight to ten eggs, one and half pints of new milk or single cream, and 6oz. to 8oz. of sugar ; when this is sufficiently thickened, three-parts freeze, then add to it the meringue, a gill of maraschinoPonding Tutti Frutti, and lastly a few drops of essence of cinnamon. Again freeze it, then stir in half a pint of stiffly whipped cream and loz. each of pistachios, blanched and shredded, dried cherries, and candied citron and orange peel, all cut into small dice. Then mould in a pudding mould and set in the ice cave in the usual way. Iced Bice d ZTmperair/ce.— Blanch half a pound of good rice, drain well, then simmer it gently for an hour in three pints of boiled cream, with three- quarters of a pound of sugar. When this is cold freeze it, and when three-parts frozen add two egg whites of Italian meringue, again freeze it, and when all but ready stir in 6oz. to 8oz. of preserved fruit, previously cut into dice and marinaded with lemon juice, and licj^ueur or spirit to taste. Freeze a moment longer, then turn it into a mould, and freeze for one and a half to two hours in the ice cave. Serve with the following sauce : Half freeze a pint 74 ICES. of champagne, mixed with a gill of syrup boiled to 30 degrees, add an Italian meringue, made of sugar syrup and one egg white, and serve in a boat with the ice.