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The hearthstone; or, Life at home

1883

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Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Orange Cream (i). — One ounce of isinglass, six large oranges, one lemon, sugar to taste, water, half a pint of good creamOrange Cream (i). Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemon ; strain it and put it into a sauce- pan with the isinglass and sufficient water to make in all one pint and a half Rub the sugar on the orange and lemon-rind, add to it the other ingredients, and boil all together for about ten minutes. Strain through a muslin bag, and, when cold, beat up with it half a pint of thick cream. Wet a mould or soak it in cold water ; pour in the cream, and put it in a cool place to set. If the weather is very cold, one ounce of isinglass will be found sufficient for the above proportion of ingredients. Time : Ten minutes to boil the juice and water. Orange Cream (2). — One Seville orange, one tablespoonful of brandy, quarter of a pound of loaf-sugar, the yolks of four eggs, one pint of creamOrange Cream (2). Boil the rind of the Seville orange until tender, and beat it in a mortar to a pulp ; add to it the brandy, the strained juice of the orange and the sugar, and beat all together for about ten min- utes, adding the well-beaten yolks of eggs. Bring the cream to the boiling-point, and pour it very gradually to the othar ingredients, and beat the mixture till nearly cold ; put it into custard-cups, place the cups in a deep dish of boiling water, where let them remain till quite cold. Take the cups out of the water, wipe them, and garnish the tops of the cream with candied orange-peel or preserved chips. Ice-cream. — The best ice-cream is made simply of cream, sweet- ened, flavored with lemon-juice, or other extracts, if preferred, and frozen. Where cream cannot be procured, make a custard. One COOKERY RECIPES. 489 quart of milk, three eggs, beaten light, sweetened, heat scalding hot; care must be taken that it does not boil. Take it from the fire ; when cool, season it with vanilla or lemon, and freeze. Pineapple Ice-cream. — Half a pound of preserved pineapple, one pint of cream, the juice of a small lemon, one gill of new milk, quarter of a pound of sugarPineapple Ice-cream; cut the pineapple into small pieces; bruise it in a mortar; add the sugar, lemon-juice, cream and milk; mix well together ; press through a hair-sieve, and freeze. Raspberry Ice-cream. — Half a pound of raspberry jam, the juice of one lemon, one pint of cream, one gill of milk, a {ew drops of cochinealRaspberry Ice-cream ; strain the lemon-juice over the jam; stir in the cochineal; add the milk and cream ; beat up in a basin and freeze. Strawberry Ice-cream. — Half a pound of fresh strawberries, half a pound of sugar, one pint of cream, half a pound of good strawberry- jam, the juice of one lemon, half a pint of milkStrawberry Ice-cream; beat up the straw- berries, lemon-juice and sugar into a pulp; add the preserved cream and milk, and freeze. Coffee Ice-cream. — Six ounces of Turkey coffee-berries, well roasted, one pint of cream, half a pint of milk, one ounce of arrow- root, half a pound of sugarCoffee Ice-cream; place the berries on a tin in the oven for five minutes ; boil the cream and milk together, and put them into a can ; take the berries from the oven and throw them in the scalding cream ; cover till cold ; strain ; add the arrowroot and sugar; stir over the fire like custard: