Cream Paste flavoured with Coffee

Ingredients

• 6oz. of coffee
• 3 breakfast-cupfuls of boiling milk
• the yolks of six eggs
• 2 table-spoonfuls of flour
• 3oz. of butter
• ilb. of crushed loaf sugar
• the same quantity of powdered macaroons

Method

1. 1

   Roast coffee until oily, mix with boiling milk, cool, and strain.

2. 2

   Mix with egg yolks and flour, boil until thick.

3. 3

   Add butter, sugar, and macaroons, stirring until smooth.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 548. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Paste flavoured with Coffee. — Put 6oz. of coffee to roast ; when it becomes oily, put it into a saucepan with 3 breakfast-cupfuls of boiling milk, cover over the pan, let it remain until nearly cold, and strain through a cloth. A small quantity should now be mixed with the yolks of six eggs and 2 table-spoonfuls of flour with a little salt in it, the whole put into a saucepan, and boiled slowly until it is of such a consistence that it adheres to the spoon while being stirred. Add 3oz. of butter very slightly coloured in a sauce- pan, also ilb. of crushed loaf sugar and the same quantity of powdered macaroons

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