Cream

Ingredients

• Boil one pint of milk
• Beat two eggs
• half a cup of sugar
• one saltspoonful of salt
• one tablespoonful of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, add flour, then gradually add boiling milk.

2. 2

   Pour on eggs and sugar, and cook in a double boiler for five minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 220. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cream of tartar and sifted four times. Beat the %€hites of eleven eggs., with a wire beater or perforated spoon, until stiff and flaky. Add one cup and a half of fine granulated sugar, and beat again ; add one teaspoonful of vanilla or almond^ then mix in the flour quickly and lightly. Line the bottom and funnel of a cake pan with paper not greased, pour in the mixture, and bake about forty minutes. When done, loosen the cake around the edge, and turn out at once. Some persons have been more successful with this cake by mixing the sugar with the flour and cream of tartar, and adding all at once to the beaten egg. The Boston Cook Book. 375 Sunshine Cake, — Make the same as Angel Cake, using one teaspoonful of orange extract instead of vanilla, and adding the well-beaten yolks of six eggs to the beaten whites and sugar before adding the flour. Sponge Cake for Cream Pies, or Berwick Sponge Cake. 3 eggs, yolks. ly^ cup sugar. % cup water. 1 teaspoonful lemon extract. 2 cups pastry flour. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. 3^ teaspoonful soda. Whites of 3 eggs. Beat the yolks of the eggs ; add the sugar, lemon juice, and water ; then the flour, mixed with the soda and cream of tartar, and, lastly, the whites of the eggs. Bake in round shallow pans. When cool, split and fill with cream. When each part of the process of beating is done just two minutes by the clock, and baked in a loaf, it is called Berwick Sponge Cake, Cream, — Boil one pint of milk. Beat two eggs ; add half a cup of sugar and one saltspoonful of salt. Melt one tahlespoonful of butter in a granite saucepan, and add two tablespoon fuls of flou

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