Filling for Cake

Ingredients

• a level tablespoon of gelatin
• one tablespoon of cold water
• one pint of cream
• a small teaspoon vanilla flavoring
• one tablespoon of boiling water
• one cup of milk
• three level tablespoons of ground coffee
• one-half cup of sugar
• three level tablespoons of flour
• a pinch of salt
• one beaten egg

Method

1. 1

   Soak gelatin in cold water, add boiling water and stir.

2. 2

   Heat cream, beat in gelatin, add sugar, flour, and salt.

3. 3

   Cook in a double boiler for fifteen minutes, add beaten egg, cook two minutes, cool, and add vanilla.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FILLING FOR CAKES COFFEE CREAM FOR CHARLOTTE AND ECLAIR— Flavor one pint of rich thick cream with one-fourth cup of black coffee and one teaspoon of lemon, add about a half a cup of sugar, chill and whip it until thick enough to stand. Pour it into molds lined with thin sponge cake or lady fingers. Fill them level and ornament the top with some of the cream forced through tube. FILLING — For the filling scald one cup of milk with three level tablespoons of ground coffee and let stand where it will be hot but not boil, for five minutes. Strain, add one-half cup of sugar, three level tablespoons of flour and a pinch of salt. Cook in a double boiler fifteen minutes, add one beaten egg and cook two minutes, stirring to keep smooth. Cool and add one-quarter teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. Fill the cream cakes and cover with cream beaten thick, sweetened with powdered sugar and flavored with a few drops of vanilla. n8 FILLING FOR CAKES FILLING FOR CAKE— Soak a level tablespoon of gelatin in one tablespoon of cold water for half an hour, add one table- spoon of boiling water and stir. Heat one pint of cream stiff, then beat in the soaked gelatin, add powdered sugar to make sweet and a small teaspoon vanilla flavoring

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