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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

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.
Coffee Ice-cream. — Take 4 ozs. of freshly roasted coffee and pour a quart of boiling milk over it. Allow to stand until cold, then strain through a nap- kin ; add half a pint of whipped cream and lb. of sugarCoffee Ice-cream. Freeze as usual. Glace Napolitain. — Take 4 ozs. of rice, wash it thoroughly, and put it in a stewpan with a pint of milk, a pint of good cream, a pinch of salt, and 2 ozs. of sugar. Let the rice swell consid- erably in this. When it is tender enough to give way between the fin- gers, add a stick of good vanilla, and boil it one minute, then let it get cold. When cold, take all the cream that re- mains liquid, and put it in a stewpan with the yolks of six eggs ; if there is not cream enough, add to it a little milk. Turn this on the fire with a wooden spoon, and when the eggs are well done, and the mixture very thick, let it cool. Add to this a pint of double-whipped creamGlace Napolitain, and, after mix- ing the cream with the custard, taste if the latter is sweet enough. Do not make it too sweet. Then take some out in a basin and put it into the rice only ; next mix together the rice and cream, take out the vanilla, and put all the rest into the freezer; work it well in 200 TABLE SET FOR AN INFORMAL DINNER • 1 Lemon Ice-cream ICE-CREAMS Pistache Ice-cream the ice. When quite frozen, put it in the mould, with salt all round the ice. At dinner-time dip the mould in cold water and push the ice off the mould, and cover the gateau with the cream that you have put by in the basin. In- dividual moulds are frequently used. Lemon Ice-cream. — Rasp the yel- low rind of two large, fresh lemons upon x/z lb. of loaf sugar. Powder it and strain over it the juice of one lemon. Add a quart of creamLemon Ice-cream, stir until the sugar is dissolved, freeze, and serve. Macaroon Ice-cream. — Scald a pint of milk and pour it slowly upon six eggs beaten light with two cupfuls of sugar. Return to the fire in a double boiler and cook, stirring constantly, until you have a custard that will coat the spoon. Then remove the custard from the fire and set aside to cool, and add a pint of cream and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Turn into a freezer and grind until half frozen. With a roll- ing-pin crush ten dry macaroonsMacaroon Ice-cream to a coarse powder and beat thoroughly into the half -frozen cream. Recover the freezer, pack down in ice, and salt for three hours. Maraschino Ice-cream. — Mix i lb. of pulverized sugar, one-half pint of unsweetened condensed milk, and one pint of cream thoroughly ; pour in the cordial from one pint of maras- chino cherries and four table-spoon- fuls of cognacMaraschino Ice-cream. Cut the cherries finely and add them last. Freeze. Serve in small, separate moulds. The same cream may be made without the maraschino or cognac, simply with one cupful of strong coffee as a flavoring. Neapolitan Ice-cream is made by placing in the mould layers of three or more varieties of ice-cream. Nesselrode Ice-cream. — One pint of syrup of loaf sugar, flavored with vanilla ; fifty fine, large chestnuts, boiled, peeled, pounded, and pressed through a sieve; one quart of fresh