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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.
xjtateau de Gerneaux d la Parisienne. — Prepare a walnut cake precisely as in the recipe for chocolate cake with prahne cream, only using a green glace strongly flavomud with brandy or liqueur as you j)lease, garnish with walnuts carefully shelled, and dipped in sugar boiled to the crack, and fill up with nut cream iceGateau de Gerneaux a la Parisienne made with walnuts. Gateau Geaoise d la Glace. — First cut out in stiff cardboard or tin a six-sided (hexagonal) shape ; then prepare some rich gcnoise paste and spread this out on baking sheets (previously buttered, and dusted with equal parts of flour and sugar) about a quarter of an inch thick, and bake in a moderate oven. When ready, cut out, with the help of the cardboard shape, twelve hexagonal pieces ; stamp the centre out of all but one of them, and put these together in threes, place a clean plate or tin over them, weight them, and leave them till quite cold. Now spread each slice with apricot jam, previously sieved and moistened with a little rum or noyeau, and build the cake up again, being careful to make the corners fit, trim it neatly, and pour over it all a thin puree of the rum-flavoured apricot jam, and let it stand till wanted ; fill up with a good orange or other sorbetGateau Geaoise a la Glace to your mind and serve. Like the charlottes, and, indeed, most other dainties, the^e cakes admit of endless variety, and once a cook has grasped the idea of their composition, she will find it easy enough to produce changes. The only form of ice left unnoticed in the sweet way is the iced fruit fool. This is a very palatable 118 ICES. form of iced sweet, and, being quite free from anv alcoholic mixture, answers admirably for tennis teas and other gatherings for the enjoyment of young IDeople. Furthermore, there is little or no difficulty in their manufacture. Iced Gooseberry Fool. — Stew very slowly a quart ' of green gooseberides, after topping and tailing them, with half a pound of sugar, three or four finely pared strips of lemon rind, and just enough water to keep them from burning ; when tender rub them carefuUv through a fine sieve, adding a very few drops of vegetable green to bring up the colour, then add to it a wineglassful of maraschino liqueur syrup, a squeeze of lemon juice, and half a pint of stiffly whipped creamIced Gooseberry Fool ; freeze either in the freezer or in a ^ tin pail tightly covered and buried in salt and ice. This last method takes longer to freeze, and the fool must be stirred up from the bottom and sides now and again in the course of freezing to make it set evenly and smoothly. Serve in a glass or ice bowl or tray, the latter, of course, if available, being the prettiest. Plums, apricots, peaches, &c., can all be made into fool by this recipe, a few of the kernels being ' used with them, and noyeau liqueur sjrup instead of maraschino. Currant Fool. — Beat the yolks of two eggs with s loz. or 2oz. of sugar till hght, and the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth ; have ready haff a pint of juice obtained as for currant jelly, sweeten this lightly, then add it to the eggs, and a full gill of thick creamCurrant Fool, and stir this all over the fire till it thickens to a rich ^ CHARLOTTES, GATEAUX GLAOES, &c. 119 custard, but without boiling, or it will curdle ; colour with a few di'ops of carmine, freeze as before, and serve in the same way.