Lemon Sponge or Snow Pudding

Ingredients

• half box Knox's Sparkling Gelatine
• three-quarters pint of cold water
• the rind and juice of two lemons
• six ounces sugar
• the whites of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Soak gelatine in cold water, then dissolve over the fire with lemon rind and juice and sugar.

2. 2

   Boil together for two or three minutes; strain and let it remain until nearly cold and beginning to set.

3. 3

   Then add the beaten whites of two eggs and whisk for ten minutes until it becomes the consistency of sponge.

4. 4

   Put it lightly into a glass dish, leaving it rough in appearance.

5. 5

   Serve with a thin custard.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 136. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon Sponge or Snow Pudding. — Soak half box Knox's Sparkling Gelatine in three-quarters pint of cold water, then dissolve over the fire with the rind and juice of two lemons and six ounces sugar. Boil all together two or three minutes; strain and let it remain until nearly cold and beginning to set, then add the whites of two eggs

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