Lemon or Orange Mould

Ingredients

• 4 oz. butter
• 2 oz. cornflour
• 2 lemons or oranges
• 1 pt. water
• 2 or 3 table-sps. sugar

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the lemons or oranges, and peel the rind off them as thinly as possible.

2. 2

   Put it into a saucepan with the water, and let it simmer slowly at the side of the fire to extract the flavour.

3. 3

   Mix the cornflour smoothly with a little cold water, and then strain the water from the rind slowly on to it, stirring all the time.

4. 4

   Return all to the saucepan and stir over the fire until boiling.

5. 5

   Cook about 10 minutes, then remove the saucepan from the fire, and add the sugar, butter, the strained juice of the fruit, and lastly the egg well beaten.

6. 6

   Mix together and pour all into a wet mould.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 702. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon or Orange Mould 4 oz. butter. 2 oz. cornflour. 1 or 2 eggs. Wipe the lemons or oranges, and peel the rind off them as thinly as possible. Put it into a 2 lemons or oranges. 1 pt. water. 2 or 3 table-sps. sugar

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