FoodNet

The new practical cookery guide

1913

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Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Disguised Fruit Petits Fours are various crystallised fruits filled with almond or marzipan paste of different flavour and colour to match the particular fruit used, and masked with clear sugar coating, sucre au casse. Fresh Fruit, such as grapes, quarters of oranges, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, etc., are also masked with clear sugar coating (sucre au casse) or with fondant plain or coloured, so that an endless variety of these (ladies’ delight) can be prepared as desired. Fruits Glaces (Crystallised Fruit) make a pleasant assortment in general petits fours ; they are first macerated in kirsch or other liqueurs, and Glaces (Ices). 475 masked with fondant icing’ — plain, white, or coloured — and served in special paper cases. Genoise for Petits Fours is a compound of eighteen eggs to the pound of sugarGenoise for Petits Fours, flour, and butter, and baked in fancy moulds or tartlets or in blocks about an inch or an inch and a half ; when cold, embedded with creams, jellies, marmalade, fine salpicons of fruit, etc., cut into all possible fancy shapes, and masked with icing. Macaroons — lib. of ground almonds, 141b. fine sugar, five to six whitesMacaroons. Petits Biscuits Souffles au Chocolat — lib. of fine sugar mixed with ten whisked whites of eggs and ^lb. powdered chocolatePetits Biscuits Souffles au Chocolat, baked small finger biscuit shape or in fancy cases. Other Biscuits Souffles are made, substituting almonds, hazel nuts, pistachios, for chocolate, etc. Sucre Paille, or strawed sugar (pulled sugar petits fours). The sugar is boiled in the usual way for pulled sugar work and poured on an oiled slab ; when sufficiently cold, it is worked with the hands and pulled until it attains great brilliancy ; then formed into several long strings and placed together to form one single tube ; when quite cold and set, it is cut into about inch slices with a very hot knife. Petits Fours Glaces. Abdul — Small round biscuits coated with marmalade, then masked with rum fondant icing. Aida — Small round biscuits coated with butter icing, ring of meringue on top, iced, masked with coffee icing. 476 The New Practical Cookery Guide. Alice — Small sweet paste bouches filled with salpicon of fruit, a round of Genoise over, fondant icing. Amandes — Triangle of puff paste masked with praline of coarse chopped almonds, and baked. Ameria — Fancy almond biscuits, sweet puree of cliesnut over, green icing and chopped pistachios on top. Americain — Small fancy almond paste shells filled with preserved chopped pineaj^ple, yellow liqueur icing over. Arlequin — Fancy almond biscuits with a pyramid of rose butter cream, masked with green icing. Bebe — Almond biscuits as finger biscuits, black- currant jelly filling, and iced white. Bruxellois — Petits choux, filled with pistachios cream, green icing. Cendrillon — Fancy biscuits, butter cream pralines between, vanilla icing. Comtesse — Small biscuits with chestnut puree be- tween, coffee iciug. Dalila — Fancy biscuits with a pyramid of curacao butter cream, rose icing over. Danicheff- — Almond Genoise baked in small fancy moulds, moistened with maraschino, vanilla icing, and a qherry on top. Delicats — Small round biscuits with a dome of butter cream, pink icing. Delices — Small almond Genoise rings and biscuits same size, with coffee cream between, chocolate icing over. Diane — Petits choux with apricot puree, rum fondant icing over. Glaces (Ices). 4 77