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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.
riombiere aux amandes. — Blanch and peel 6oz. of Jordan almonds with ten bitter ones, dry them well on a clean cloth, and pound them to a smooth paste, adding a little milk to prevent their oiling. When brought to a soft paste, mix this with one and a half pints of boiled cream, and tammy ; put the result into a delicately clean stewpan with the yolks of four large or five small eggs, and 6oz. of caster sugar, and stir this over the fire (without allowing it to boil) till it begins to thicken, then draw it to the side, and stir it three minutes longer. Again tammy it, and freeze three parts, when you add to it three-quarters of a pint of whipped cream, refreeze, and laijtly set it either in a Breton cake mould, or in three border or charlotte moulds of proportionate sizes. Freeze for two hours in the cave; then turn out, set one cake on top of the other, and pour iced but not frozen apricot jam sauce over it all, and serve. Iced Apple Pudding d la Frangaise. — Peel, core, and quarter two dozen apples, and simmer them over the fire till quite soft; then add to them one pound apricot jam and half a poimd of sugar, previously rubbed on the peel of a Seville orange, and when it is all well mixed sieve it, and put into the freezer. Have ready 4oz. of stoned raisins, previously simmered in a little syrup, loz. shredded citron, 2oz. blanched and shredded almonds, and a quarter of a. pint of preserved cherries di-ained from their ICED PUDDINGS, &c. 75 syrup. Add these to the apples and freeze it all a little, then add a gill each of curacoa and maraschino, and again freeze. Lastly, add half a pint of stifdy whipped cream, and mould it; leave it in the ice cave for an hour or two. Serve plain, or with iced whipped cream, slightly flavoui'ed with liqueur. Ponding Glace d V Americaine. — Stone a quart of damsons, crack the stones and put the kernels with the fimit ; add half a pound of sugar, and pour a quart of boiling water on it all ; add a few drops of carmine, and when cold, tammy ; add a wineglassful of kirsch, and freeze to a batter. Line a melon mould an inch or so thick with this mixture, and when fairly set (in the ice cave), fill it up with the following ; Blanch and pound one pound of Barce- lona nuts with a few almonds or walnuts, and stir this into a pint of whipped and sweetened cream, stir in ^oz. dissolved isinglass or leaf gelatine, with a dessertspoonful of noyeau, then close the mould, and leave in the ice cave for an hour or two before turning out. CHAPTEE YI. MOSCOYITES. The peculiarity of the Moscovite — or, to give it its proper name, the creme a la Moscovite — consists in the fact that, though iced from long burying in ice, it is not actually frozen, and owes some of its solidity to a certain proportion of either isinglass or leaf gelatine. It is, in consequence, decidedly to be recommended to such housekeepers as may not have freezing conveniences and yet wish to obey the dictates of fashion at the moment, which demand the presence of an iced sweet on every carefully arranged menu. The prej)aration partakes more or less of thd character of a havarois, or cream, flavoured to taste, and then iced.Iced Apple Pudding à la Frangaise