Blancmange

Ingredients

• an ounce of gelatine
• a quarter of a pint of milk
• ten bitter almonds
• six sweet ones
• three inches of lemon rind
• a pint and a quarter of milk
• a little loaf sugar

Method

1. 1

   Soak gelatine in 0.25 pint milk for 1 hour.

2. 2

   Blanch almonds and infuse them with lemon rind in 1.25 pints milk for 2 hours.

3. 3

   Boil the milk, pour over soaked gelatine, and strain into a jug.

4. 4

   Let it cool, stirring occasionally.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 328. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Blancmange (June 15th), or a Mould (August 7th). Pour the preparation into a damp mould. When cold, turn it upon a glass dish and serve cream with it, if permitted. To make red rice with jam, stew the contents of a pound jar of raspberry jam with enough water to fill a quart mould. Strain the juice, sweeten it, put a few drops of lemon juice with it, add cochineal to colour it, and proceed as before. Cheese (J une 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the pork in the pickle. 2. Make a blancmange for dinner to-morrow. ( See the recipe December 11th.) 3. Soak a cupful of lentils all night in cold water. December I it h. Breakfast. Dried Haddock. Boiled Ham. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Watercress. Milk Toast. Luncheon. Sheep’s Head. Baked Batter Pudding. Dinner. Fillets of Sole Sautes. German Pork. Baked Potatoes. Lentils. Blancmange. Cheese. Marketing. For the 3Day.— A Sheep’s Head ; a pair of thick Soles (January 3rd) ; Potatoes ; Red Cabbage; German Yeast; Bottled Cherries. Order Cream if allowed (see December 12th). . For To-morrow.— Sardines (January 12th) ; half a pound of Macaroni. Breakfast. — Dried Haddock (January 27th) ; Ham boiled (De¬ cember 9th) ; Milk Toast (June 17tli). Luncheon. — Sheep’s Head (January 31st) ; Baked Batter Pud¬ ding (February 5th). A YEAR'S COOKERY. 421 Dinner. — Sole, Fillets of, Santas (January 4th); Pork, German way of cooking (April 18th) ; Baked Potatoes (May 4th) ; Lentils (March 2nd). Blancmange. — Soak an ounce of gelatine for an hour in a quarter of a pint of milk. Blanch ten bitter almonds and six sweet ones. Put these, with three inches of lemon rind, into a pint and a quarter of milk for a couple of hours, then pour the milk into a stewpan and add a little loaf sugar

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