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La cuisine creole

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Season a pint of milk with sugar and wine^ but not enough wine to curdle the milk. Fill youp glasses near- ly fuU, and cpown them with sweetened whipped cream. Season the cream with extract of lemonWhite Wine Syllabub. SYLLABUB. Take the juice of a large lemon, and the yellow rînd pared thin; one glass of brandy, two glasses of white wine, and a quarter of a pound of powdered sugar. Put thèse ingrédients into a pan, and let them remaîn one night ; the next day add a pint of thick cream, and the whites of two eggs beaten together; beat them ail together to a fine froth, and ser^e in jelly glasses. WINB SANGABBB OP PORT OB MADEIBA. Take half a glass of water, sweeten it with a table- spoonful of white powdered sugar, and stir well until dissolved; add a gill of Madeira or Port, some nutmeg grated and pounded ice. Serve with lady-cake or pound-cake, eut small. 232 LA CUISINE CREOLE. STEWBD PBUNBS FOR SI0KNI2SS. Wash the prunes, put them în a stew pan, cover them wîth water, and to each pound of prunes put a cupf ul of clear brown sugaStewed Prunes for Sicknessr. Cover the stew-pan and let them boîl *ïlowly, until the syrup is thick and rich. WINB JBLLY FOR THE SICK. Take one pint of Madeira wine, one pint of water, and one ounce of isinglass dissolved in a teaeupf ul of water. Let the wine and water be boiling hot, then stir into it the dissolved isinglass, and sugar to taste ; make it quite sweet ; let it corne to a boil, try it by taking a little in a saucer, and if not a good jelly when cold, boil it until it is so ; if lemon is allowed, use the juice of twoWine Jelly for the Sick to flavor this jelly. JAUNE MANGE. Break up and boil an ounce of isinglass in rather more than half a pint of water until it is melted ; strain ît; then add the juice of two large oranges, a gill of white wine, and the yolks of four eggs beaten and strained ; sweeten to tasteJaune Mange, and stir it over a gentle fire till it boîls up ; dip a mould into cold water and pour the préparation into it. OARRIGBEN MOSS FOR INVALIDS. Wash and pick a tablespoonf ul of Irish moss and put it into a tin cup ; pour on it half a pint of boiling water, and set it on the coals for a short time; when it is ail dissolved add sugar and nutmeg to taste. This may be made with milk, to resemble custard, and is very nour- ishing. Délicate infants may be fed on it when they will take no other nourishment. L'A VOISINE CREOLE. 233 TABTABIC AOID AS A SUBSTITUTS FOR LBMONS. If lemons cannot be obtaîned to make either a lemon- ade or jellies for the sîck, tartarîc acid is a good substi- tute, and if used in conjunctîon wîth the extract of lemon, is a very agreeable one. LBMON JELLY WÏTHOUT LEMONS. Take a box of Oox's gélatine, pour over it one quart of boiling water, and stir until ît is dissolved. Add a teaspoonful of tartaric acid, and four cups of sugar; let it dissolve and bring it to a boil ; while boiling, stir in the beaten whites of three eggs ; let this boil up once again and take it oflf the flre ; when nearly cool, add to it a tablespoonf ul of good extract of lemon. Strain the mix- ture into moulds or cups, and set it in a cool place, or on ice, to become flrm. It must be cool, or it will not jelly. ORANGE SHERBET. Squeeze the juice f rom a dozen oranges ; pour boiling water on the peel, and cover it closely. Boil water and sugar (a pint to a pound) to a syrup; skim it clear; when ail are cold, mix the syrup, juice and peel with as much water as may be necessary to make a rich orange- ade; strain it, and set the vessel containing it on ice. Or it may be made the same as lemonade, using one lemon with half a dozen oranges. STRAWBERRT SHERBET. Take flfteen ounces of picked strawberries, crush them in a mortar, then add to them a quart of water; pour this into a basin, with a sliced lemon, and a tea- 234 LA CUISINE CREOLE.