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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

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.
CarefuUy remove the shells from the corn-starch eggs and arrange these in the centre, and serve. Chantilly Paddinff Beat the yolks of four eggs with one cup of powdered sugar until they are very light and creamy, then add the grated rind of one lemon. Whip the whites of the four eggs until they are very stiff, then gradually stir in the yolks. Use a wire whisk and cut through the mixture. Do not stir more than neces- sary. Add two gills of flour which has been sifted twice. Butter a cylinder mould and dredge it with sugar. Pour in the mixture, filling the mould about three-quarters full, allow- ing it room to rise. Bake in a moderate oven twenty to twenty- five minutes. Turn it out of the mould and set away to cool. Whip very stiff one pint of rich cream, sweeten with a table- spoon of powdered sugar, and flavor with one tablespoon of MadeiraChantilly Pudding. Then fili up the hoUow of the pudding with the whipped cream, giving it the shape of an individuai charlotte. Pour the rest of the whipped cream into a bowl, flavor it with 310 MBS. SBELT'S COOK BOOK strained strawberry juice to color it pink. Put the cream into a paper cornucopia and form it into rosettes around the pud- ding. Place in ice-box for one hour. Fresh strawberrìes xnay be passed round with it. Charlotte BoBse Line the bottom of a charlotte mould with white paper and the flides with lady's fingere. Boil half a pint of milk with one-quarter of a vanilla bean. Beat the yolks of three eggs with three ounces of sugar and add the boiling milk. Stir over a moderate fire until it begins to thicken. Do net let it boil. Remove the vanilla bean and add one sheet of clear gelatine, moistened in a little cold water and dissolved in one- half gill of boiling water. Rub the whole mixture through a fine strainer, set it away until it is slightly thick, and mix it with a pint and a half of whipped cream. Pour into the char- lotte mould, cover the top with paper, and set on the ice for an hour or more. When ready to serve, invert on a dish. Have a cover for the top made of the lady^s finger pastry, decorate it with icing, and, if desired, candied cherries, etc. Charlotte Busse Dissolve a f ourth of a package, or two teaspoons, of gelatine in a f ourth of a cup of cold water, and add it to half a pint of milk heated and three-quarters of a cup of sugfar. Whip half a pint of rich cream, add to the gelatine and sugar, and stir in later the beaten whites of the eggs. Flavor with vanilla. Charlotte à la Parisienne Cut horizontally, in half-inch slices, a spenge cake, and cover each slice with a different kind of preserve. Pile the slices in their originai form, and spread over the whole cake a stiff icing. One kind of preserve, instead of several, may be used for this charlotte, and pound cake instead of spenge cake. CHARLOTTE RUSSECharlotte Russe. WINE JELLY WITH tiRAPES. (8m p. SII) / GOLD PUDDINQ8, CBEAMS, MERINGUE8, AND ICS8 811 Ohooolate Blano-mange Chocolate Blanc-mange