Caviar in Snow a la Ericsson Hammond

Ingredients

• One cup whipped cream
• whites of two eggs
• little cayenne pepper
• salt
• teaspoon lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff meringue; mix in with the cream, add pepper, salt, lemon juice; fill a ring mould; put it in a freezer; freeze from two to three hours.

2. 2

   When ready to serve, dip in warm water and turn out on a paper doily.

3. 3

   Serve the fresh caviar in the centre and three angles of buttered toast all around.

4. 4

   Can also be frozen in small fancy individual ring moulds and turned out on buttered bread.

5. 5

   Garnish with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One cup whipped cream, three tablespoons dissolved Cox’s gelatine, pepper, salt, two teaspoons caviar. How to Make It. Glaze butterfly moulds with aspic; decorate with Spanish pepper, truffles, and some chopped parsley. Mix the AMERICAN COOK BOOK cream, gelatine, and caviar together and fill; turn out on bread that has been spread with thick caviar. Garnish with parsley. Serve before the soup. Caviar in Tomatoes ( Caviar en Tomates ) a la Prince Carl Select very tiny tomatoes; put in hot water and peel; cut a little hole at the top and scoop out, leaving just a thin shell. Roll in parsley; fill with caviar; serve on round slices of buttered bread or toast. Put in a handle of green pepper or lemon with a bow of white ribbon. Garnish with parsley. Serve before the soup. Caviar in Aspic ( Caviar en Aspic ) a la Hammond Glaze little ring moulds with aspic and sprinkle with chopped parsley; fill with aspic; spread a round piece of bread with butter and caviar; put another piece on top. Turn out a ring of aspic on each piece with caviar in the centre. Garnish with parsley and serve before the soup. Iced Caviar ( Caviar glace) a la New York Select a piece of ice according to the number of guests. Put a small mould, filled with hot water, in the centre of the ice. Take a clean cloth and keep wiping the water away, otherwise it will make lines in the ice. Continue this until the hole is sufficiently large to hold the required amount of caviar. Put an iron poker in the fire and scallop the ice all around according to taste. Leave in the icebox and when ready to serve, put the block of ice on a platter on a folded napkin. Put at the bottom in the hole a thin slice of toast, and on the top of that fill with the fresh caviar. Have ready buttered triangular pieces of toast, and serve on the napkin all around the ice. Garnish with parsley. Leave a spoon on the caviar for each person to help himself with [if individual ices are desired, they must be frozen in moulds according to the size wanted]. Serve before the soup. Caviar with Eggs a la Gimo, for Six Persons Caviar aux CEufs , a la Gimo Three hard-boiled eggs, one half pound caviar, two tablespoons butter, cayenne pepper, and salt. How to Make It. Add the yolks to one tablespoon butter that has been stirred to a cream; season with pepper and salt. Spread round slices of bread; decorate with small diamonds of truffles all . around and a strip of the stirred butter on the outside edge of the THE SWEDISH, FRENCH, AMERICAN COOK BOOK 21 bread. Put the white of the half eggs on each slice; fill with the fresh caviar; decorate with butter and Spanish pepper. Caviar in Glasses with Toast (Caviar en Verre aux Roties ) Garni When the caviar is fresh, it is served in a fancy glass dish on a folded napkin with a spoon on the platter. Garnish with parsley. Serve with triangular pieces of buttered toast. Caviar in Tomato Aspic ( Caviar en Aspic de Tomate ) a la Eva Have tomato aspic, nicely colored, put in a fancy mould ac¬ cording to the number of people and the amount of caviar that is going to be used for the filling. When ready to serve, dip the ring in lukewarm water and turn out on a platter on a folded napkin. Serve the caviar in the centre and garnish all around with triangular pieces of toast and parsley. Serve before the soup. Caviar Sandwich with Pimentos Sandwich au Caviar et aux Piments Slice bread and trim in pieces about three inches square; spread with plain fresh caviar, and roll. Decorate with three bands of pimentos. Garnish with parsley. Arrange on a napkin or a paper doily. Serve before the soup. Caviar ( Caviar ) a la Fanchonette Make small fancy baskets from puff paste. Tie the handles with ribbon to match the table; arrange on a folded napkin. Have the fresh caviar very cold, and, when ready to serve, put the amount wanted in each basket; stick a handle in each. Garnish with a slice of hard-boiled egg in the centre. Serve before the soup. Caviar ( Caviar ) a la Croustade Make croustades one inch deep [see recipe for the croustades]. When ready to serve, fill the croustades with the caviar that has been left in the icebox until cold. Serve the croustades on a thin round slice of buttered toast and on top of each put a thin slice of hard-boiled egg. Garnish with parsley or watercress. Serve be¬ fore the soup. Caviar with Eggs ( Caviar aux CEufs ) a la Gimo One egg, two tablespoons cream, three tablespoons milk, pepper, salt, little pinch baking powder, one tablespoon flour. How to Make It. Mix egg, milk, flour, baking powder, and, last, the cream. Put the batter in a pan as when making a pancake. When cooked on one side, turn over and brown on the other side, golden. Turn out on a board; cut in pieces about two and one-half inches wide. Spread with caviar, and roll. Serve on a slice of toast that has been spread with caviar. Garnish with parsley. Serve before the soup. Caviar Canape ( Canape de Caviar) a la Diana Supply one piece of buttered toast for each person. Cover half with anchovy fillets and half with caviar. Decorate around the edge with hard-boiled yolk of egg chopped fine. Garnish with lemon and parsley. Serve as an appetizer. Caviar with Eggs ( Caviar aux CEufs ) a la Walde Three eggs, three tablespoons milk, one tablespoon cream to each egg, pepper and salt. How to Make It. Mix the three eggs with the milk and cream. Butter individual ring moulds well; fill; cook in hot water for ten minutes, uncovered. Let stand until cold. Spread round pieces of bread with butter and caviar; turn the rings out on the bread, decorate the rings with strips of Spanish pepper all around. Gar¬ nish with parsley. Serve [with caviar in the centre of each ring] before the soup. Caviar in Snow ( Caviar en Neige ) a la Ericsson Hammond One cup whipped cream, whites of two eggs, little cayenne pepper, salt, teaspoon lemon juice

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