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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.
sugar and half a cup of cold water and cook steadily over a slow fire ten minutes. Test it by dropping a little of the syrup in oold water. When you can form it into a soft ball, the syrup has reached the right degree. Have the whites of three eggs beaten so you can cut them with a knife. Pour the hot syrup slowly into the whites, stirring constantly. Place the bowl in cold water and stir the mixture until it is cold. Whip a pint of cream until it is stiff and flavor with one tablespoon of vanillaStrawberry Nesselrode. Drain your candied fruita and stir them into the whipped cream. Put this mixture in the mould you have lined with strawberry ice. Put some more strawberry ice on top. Cover it securely and pack closely in rock salt and ice. Let it stand four hours. When wanted, dip your mould in tepid water, remove the cover, and turn your cream on a dish. Put a garland of candied fruit around the edge. Strawberry Punch HuU a quart of fine f resh strawberries, cover them with three cupa of sugar, and set them away till the sugar has drawn out their juice, and they stand in a red syrup. Then put the syrup und berries through a fine sieve and add a claret glass of sweet wine and a cup and a half of waterStrawberry Punch. Stir well together and f reeze. Serve in punch or lemonade glasses. Tutti Fratti loe-oream The yolks of siz eggs, one tablespoon of flour, one cup of powdered sugar, and one pint of milk. Beat the sugar, egg yolks, and flour together. Boll the milk, mix thorougbly with the other ingredients, and pour ali into a doublé boiler. Cook to a thick custard and set away to cool. When cold, stir in one pint of rich cream. Pour into a freezer and f reeze until the mixture becomes creamy. Have at hand some candied f ruitTutti Frutti Ice Creams, cherries, etc, which have been soaked in maraschino, also some GOLD PUDDINQ8, CREAM8, MERIN0UE8, AND ICB8 886 rìch raisins. When the mixture is nearly frozen, add these fraits, turn the freezer a few mìnutes longer, then let it stand UDtil wanted. When ready to serve, have at hand a large Hat dish of shredded cocoanut. Take a spoonf ul of the cream at a time, mould it into the shape of an egg, then roll ìt in the shredded cocoanut. Spin some sugar, form into a nest, and place your eggs in it. This cream may be made with plain marrons or chestnuts in place of the candied fruits. Vanilla loe-oream To one pint of whipped cream add one pint of milk and a tablespoon of vanilla. Sweeten to taste, takiug care not to put in too much sugar. Freeze so that it will be perfectly smooth. Walnut and Fifir Ice-oream Heat two and a half cups of milk, having reserved cold half a cup to mix with the other ingredients. A part of this half cup of cold milk use for dissolving a tablespoon of gelatine, and with the rest mix two tablespoons of flour, an %gg^ and a cup of sugar. Into the milk, heating in a doublé boiler, stir gradually the flour, sugar, and egg. When it has come to a custard, add the dissolved gelatine, a cup of rich cream, and a teaspoon of yanilla. After you have frozen the mixture, add the meats of half a pound of English walnuts (weighed in the shell) and a quarter of a pound of figsWalnut and Fig Ice Cream. The walnuts and figs should be well chopped. Beat them well in the custard and pack. CHAPTER Xm CAKES, FILLIN6S, AND ICIN08 loinff for Oakes