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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.
cream; the yolks of twelve eggs well beaten. Moisten the strained chest- nuts with the syrup, adding little by little the cream and the beaten yolks ; when all these ingredients are smoothly mixed together, cook in a bain-marie, stirring continually until the cream begins to thicken; add then a piece of candied citron, sliced fine, lb. of sultana raisins, seeded and dredged, and a glassful of maraschino; add lastly a quart of whipped cream and the yolks of three eggs well beaten; stir con- tinually until the cream is as smooth as velvet and very thick ; and freeze. See also Puddings (Nesselrode). Peach Ice-cream. — One quart of ripe, sweet peaches after they have been peeled and mashed through a col- ander, one and a half cupfuls of gran- ulated sugar, and one quart of cream. Dissolve the sugar in one pint of the cream, and whip the other pint to a froth. Mix the cream and peaches together, stir well, and freeze. Pineapple Ice-cream. — Beat the yolks of six eggs thoroughly. Mix with them half a pint of lukewarm milk, and add 2 ozs. of loaf sugar. Stir this custard over a gentle fire un- til it begins to thicken, then pour it out and stir it again. Pare a pine- apple and cut it into slices. Boil it for five minutes in a syrup made of x/z lb. of loaf sugar and a quarter of a pint of water. Press the fruit through a coarse sieve, and stir the pulp and the syrup into the custard. Put the crearrf into a mould, and freeze in the usual way. Pistache Ice-cream. — Blanch and peel % lb. of pistache - nuts, and pound them to a smooth paste with a few drops of rose-water. Beat the yolks of six eggs, and pour over them a pint and a half of boiling milk; add 4 ozs. of powdered sugar, and stir the custard over the fire until it begins to thicken; then pour it out, and when cool stir into it the pounded pistaches and a teaspoonful of spinach color- Pistache Ice-cream 201 Plum-pudding Ice-cream ICE-CREAMS Tutti-frutti Ice -cream ing. Pass the whole through a sieve ; mould and freeze . If preferred, the pis- tache paste can be mixed with cream instead of custard. Time, about a quarter of an hour to boil the custard. Plum-pudding Ice-cream. — Make a rich chocolate cream by taking a quart of cream, a cupful of sugar, and half a cupful of grated sweet chocolate, and scald with an inch of vanilla bean ; strain and add while hot a cupful of chopped raisins, a cupful of chopped nuts, and a cupful of chopped figs, and stir till cool; then freeze, and when stiff mix in half a cupful of brandy in which a teaspoonful of pow- dered cloves and one of cinnamonPlum-pudding Ice-cream have been soaked. Pack in a square brick, and serve in small slices with a spobn- ful of whipped cream with each piece. Raspberry Ice-cream. — Mix i lb. of fresh, ripe raspberries with the juice of a lemon, Y2 lb. of powdered sugar, and a pint and a half of thick cream, or, if preferred, a pint of cream and half a pint of milkRaspberry Ice-cream. Beat the mixture in a bowl, rub it through a sieve, freeze in the usual way, and leave it in the ice- pail till it is wanted. If more con- venient, raspberry jam or raspberry jelly may be used instead of the fresh fruit, and when this is done very little sugar will be required ; or two portions of red currants mixed with one por- tion of raspberries may be used.