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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.
add to tliis three-quarters of a pint of stiffly whipped cream, a sherry-glassful of sherry, a dust of saltSouffle Glace au Foie Gras and coralline pepper, and fib. finely minced roast partridge (fib. partridge and 4oz. mushroom puree can be substituted for this ; or, if game is scarce, pich all the available flesh from some carcases of roast game, make a very strongly flavoured stock with the bones, and add sufficient cold minced chicken or rabbit to bring it to the requisite quantity) ; when all these have been very quickly stirred together, pour it all into a papered souffle case, to within fin. of the top of the band, and set it in the charged cave for thirty to forty minutes ; then lift it out of the ice cave, and run over it a layer of very strong game aspic, and return it to the cave for twenty to twenty-five minutes till firmly set ; remove the paper, and serve with a rose of stiffly whipped cream mixed with minced parsley, truffle, and coralline pepper on the top. This can be frozen in small paper cases (of course, papered as usual), and any game can be used for it. Cold roast grouse with the mushroom puree, and the cream mixed with tiny dice of foie gras is specially delicious in this way. Tomates a la Creme au Geleri. — Peel some small, well-shaped and coloured tomatoes by dipping them for a moment in boiling water and then removing the skin ; scoop out the seeds and the centre, and set them in the ice cave till perfectly cold and firm ; have ready some nice celery, cut into tiny julienne strips and thrown into cold water' to crisp till wanted ; about an equal amount of blanched and roughly chopped walnuts, and the same of grated cheese j SAYOURY ICES. 129 freeze a pint of stiffly whipped cream, and when half frozen stir into it the celery, cheese, and walnuts, with a seasoning of cayenne and a very little saltTomates a la Creme au Geleri, finish freezing, and serve piled np in the tomatoes. Artichoke bottoms can be used instead of tomatoes, and the filling can also be varied to taste. Iced Vegetable Macedome. — Turn out the contents of a tin or bottle of vegetable macedoine and drain it well (or take a pint of any freshly cooked but cold vegetables of as many different kinds as you can), liave ready one and a half pints of very rich curry sauce, in which yon have dissolved four or five sheets of best leaf gelatineIced Vegetable Macedome, stir the vegetables into this as it is setting, mould (a tall, straight cylinder mould is best), and freeze in a cave for three-quarters to one hour. Turn out, and serve either with plainly boiled rice or with a garnish of sliced lobster garnished with mayonnaise aspic Iced Anchovij Great a. — W ash and bone six an- chovies, and pound them with the hard-boiled yolk of an egg, a tablespoonfnl of oil, a dust of cayenne and just as few drops of carmine as will bring it all to a pretty pink. When this is all perfectly smooth, mix with it a gill of only just liquid aspic, tammy, and stir it to one and a half gdls of stiffly whippe cream ;Iced Anchovy Great mould in little dariole moulds, and set them m a cave for half an hour, then turn out, and serve with a rose of cayenne-flavoured cream or good caviare on each little mould. Cheese Creams, Iced. — Mix lightly and quic y together three tablespoon fuls of freshly giate mesan cheese, two of grated Gruyere, a dash of K 130 ICES.