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The Ideal cook book

1899

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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
784. Coffee Cream-—lIngredients—1 breakfastcupful of made coffee, a little more than ¥%4 pt. of boiled milk, 8 yolks of eggs, a pinch of salt, 14 lb, sugar, 2 oz. of dissolved gelatineCoffee Cream. Put the coffee into a stewpan with the milk; add the yolks, salt and sugar ; stir the cream briskly on the fire until it begins to thicken ; stir for a minute longer and then run it through a sieve into a basin, add the gelatine, mix and set the cream in a mould embedded in rough ice. ~ 222 | THE Dominion Coox Boox. 785. Leemon Cream.—lIngredients—1 pt. of th ck cream, yolks of 2 eggs, 4 oz. of fine sugar, rind of one lemon cut thinly, juice of the ~ lemon. Well beat the yolks and add to the cream, sugar and rind of the lemon ; boil, and then stir it till almost cold; put the juice of the lemon into a dish and pour the cream upon it, stir- ring until quite cold. 786. Lemmon Cream Solid—Ingredients—% a pint of cream, the juice of 3 lemons and the rind of 2, 3¢ Ib. of loaf sugar in small lumps. Rub the sugar on the lemons, and lay them at the bottom of the dish, pour the lemon juice over, make the cream a little warm, then, standing on a chair, and with the dish on the ground, pour the cream on so as to froth it. 787. Almond Cream-—lIngredients—4 oz. swee. almonds, a few bitter almonds, a quart of cream, juice of 3 lemons (sweetened), a little orange flower water. Blanch and pound the almonds in a mortar, moistening with a little orange flower water. Add the cream and the sweetened juice of the lemons. Beat toa froth, which take off on the shallow part of a sieve; fill glasses with some of the cream and some of the froth. 788. Substitute for Cream. We have just met with the following in an Indian recipe book : ‘ Beat the white of an egg to a froth, and mix well with it a very small lump of butter. Add it to a hot liquid gradu- ally, so that it may not curdle.” 789. Burnt Cream (1)—Ingredients—1 pint of cream, 1 stick of cin- namon, a little lemon peel, the yolks of 4 eggs, sugar to taste. Boil the cream with a stick of cinnamon and lemon peel ; take it off the fire and pour it very slowly into the yolks of the eggs, stirring till half cold; sweeten, and take out the spice, etc., pour it into the dish; when cold, strew white pounded sugar over and brown it with a salamander 790. Burnt Cream (2). Make a rich custard without sugar, boil lemon peel in it. When cold sift a good deal of sugar over the whole, and brown the top with a salamander. 791. Parisienne Cream -—Ingredients—1 ounce of fine isinglass, 1 pt. of thin cream, 3 oz. of sugar broken into small lumps, % pt, of rich cream, 8 oz. of the finest apricot or peach jam. Swrer DIsHEs. 223 _ Dissolve the isinglass in the thin cream, and strain it through folded muslin ; put it into a clean saucepan with the lump sugar, and when it boils add the rich cream ; add it by spoonfuls to the jam, which has been passed through the sieve when made. Mix the whole smoothly, and put it into a mould and stir till nearly cold, to prevent the jam sink- ing to the bottom. Put it on ice, and when set turn it out and serve The strained juice of a lemon may be added when making the cream, and is a great improvement. 792. Pineapple Cream-— Ingredients —A tin of preserved pineapple, 60z. of sugar, % pint of water, 7 sheets of best French gelatine dissolved in a little milk, 1 pt. of cream. - Pound the pineapple in a moriar, add the sugar and water ; boil for fifteen minutes and press through a tammy. Dissolve the gelatine in a little milk ; whip the cream to a froth; mix the gelatine with the pineapple pulp, then quickly work in the cream. Pour the mixture into a mould, and put on ice to set. When wanted, dip the mould in hot water and turn out the cream. . 793. Strawberry Cream lIngredients—1 pot of good strawberry jam, 9 sheets of the best French gelatine, 1 qt. of cream. Lemon Cream