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A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl

1905

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Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
1 small cup of sugar. 2 teaspoonfuls vanillaPlain Ice-cream. Put the cream, milk, and sugar on the fire, and stir till the sugar dissolves and the cream just wrinkles on top; do not let it boil. Take it off, beat it till it is cold, add the vanilla, and freeze. French Ice-cream 1 pint of milk. 1 cup of cream. 1 cup of sugar. 4 eggs. 1 tablespoonful vanilla. 1 saltspoonful of saltFrench Ice-cream. Put the milk on the fire and let it just scald or wrinkle. Beat the yolks of the eggs, put in the sugar, and beat again ; then pour the hot milk into these slowly, and the salt, and put it on the fire in the double boiler and let it cook FOR A LITTLE GIRL 137 to a nice thick cream. (This is a plain boiled custard, such as you made for floating island.) Take it off and let it cool while you beat the whites of the eggs stiff, and then the cup of cream. Put the eggs in first lightly when the custard is entirely cold, and then the whipped cream last, and the vanilla, and freeze. Coffee Ice-cream Make either of these creams, and flavor with half a cup of strong coffee in place of vanilla. Chocolate Ice-cream Make plain ice-cream ; melt two squares of chocolate in a little saucer over the teakettle. Mix a little of the milk or cream with this, and stir it smooth, and then put it in with the rest. You will need to use a large cup of sugarChocolate Ice-cream in- stead of a small one in making this, as the chocolate is not sweetened. Peach Ice-cream Peel, cut up, and mash a cup of peaches. Make plain ice-cream, with a large cup of sugarPeach Ice-cream, and when it is cold stir in the peaches and freeze. 138 A LITTLE COOK BOOK Strawberry Ice-cream Mix a large cup of berriesStrawberry Ice-cream, mashed and strained carefully so that there are no seeds, with the ice-cream, and freeze. The Easiest Ice-cream of All — Vanilla Parfait 1 cup of sugar. 1 cup of water. Whites of three eggs. 1 pint of cream. 1 teaspoonful vanillaVanilla Parfait. Put the sugar and water in a nice enamelled saucepan and cook it without stirring. You must shake the pan often to prevent its burning, but if you stir it, it will make it sugary. After about five minutes hold your spoon up in the air and drop one drop back into the saucepan ; if a little thread is made which blows off to one side, it is done, but if not, you must cook till it does. If your fire is very hot it may make the thread in less time, so try it every few moments. Have the whites of your eggs beaten very stiff, and slowly pour the syrup into them, beating hard with a fork all the time. You must keep FOR A LITTLE GIRL 139 on beating till this is cold- Have ready a pint of thick cream, whipped very stiff, either with a Dover egg-beater, or in a little tin cream-churn, and when the egg is cold, mix the two lightly and put in the vanilla. If you have a mould with a tight cover, put it in this, but if not, take a lard-pail; cover tightly, and stand in a pail on a layer of ice and salt, mixed just as for freezing ice-cream, and pile more ice and salt all over it, the more the better. Let this stand five hours, or four will do, if necessary, and turn the cream on a pretty dish. After you have made this once it will seem no trouble at all to make it. If your mother would like a change from this recipe sometimes, try putting in the yolks of the eggs, well beaten, with the cream, and use some other flavoring. Lemon Ice Lemon Ice