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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.
Moscovite a V Alice. — Stone twenty-four good ripe greengages, cracking the stones, and pounding the kernels ; mix these with the fruit and half a pound of caster sugar, pour on to it a quart of boiling water, with an ounce of dissolved gelatine, cover the basin, and let it all stand till nearly cold. Now rub it all through a tammy with a wineglassful of maraschino or noyeau, and mould in a fancy border mould. A drop or two of green colouring may be added to bring it all to a delicate pale green tint. When quite cold and set, turn out and serve with the centre filled with stiffly whipped cream into which you have stirred the blanched and chopped ke-nels of twenty to thirty walnuts. Of course, if convenient this cream may be frozen. M. a V Americaine.— On to the strained juice of three lemons, and three oranges, pulp three ripe bananas and half a tin of canned apricots, moistening MOSOOVITES. 79 them as jou pass them through the sieve with a bare pint of water ; add to this 8oz. to lOoz. of sugar, and an ounce of leaf gelatine dissolved in a httle boiling water, with sufficient cognac and maraschino to flavour it all niceljM. a V Americaine ; then mould, and bury in ice as before. Of course, if you have an ice cave the Muscovite can be iced in this even more easily. Serve with whipped or frozen cream, sweetened and flavoured to taste. M. aux Avelines. — Blanch, drain, and dry 4oz, of filberts, and bake them just long enough to crisp without colouring them very much ; when cold pound them, adding a spoonful of new milk or cream now and again. To this paste pour five glasses (containing rather more than a third of a pint each) of boiling milk, or single cream, cover it closely, and let it stand till only just lukewarm ; meanwhile be, at lightly the yolks of eight eggs, and with the nut- flavoured milk, and 8oz. of sugar, make a custard, dissolving in it about half an ounce of best leaf gelatineM. aux Avelines, then when cold, mould and set in the usual way. This can also be made with almonds, using 6oz. of sweet, and |oz. of bitter almonds. M, au Cafe. — On to 4oz. to 5oz. of freshly roasted and slightly bruised Mocha coffee berries pour a pint of single cream, and let it infuse for an hour at the side of the stove, but without boiling; whilst infusing dissolve in it |oz. leaf gelatine and 3oz. of sugar, and when these are perfectly blended with the coffee cream, tammy it all, and when cold stir into it a gill of stiffly whipped creamM. au Cafe, then mould and finish off as before. Serve with very ripe and red strawberries. 80 ICES. cherries, or raspberries, previously marinaded with sugar and maraschino, and stood on ice till peidectly cold. This ice should be of a perfectly white colour, and has a peculiarly delicate flavour. Another way of making this is to add half a tea- cupful of strong black coffee to a quart of boiling new milk, together with lOoz. of sugar, and rather more than |oz. of leaf gelatine, let it stand till nearly cold and setting, then stir into it quickly and hghtly one and a half pints of stiffly whipped cream and a liqueur-glassfid of best cognac or maraschino, and finish as usual. This, of course, is of a dark colour.