Mafeking Creams

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz. Cox’s Gelatine
• 1 pint Milk
• 1/2 pint whipped Cream
• 2 oz. White Sugar
• A few drops Cox’s Orange Essence

Method

1. 1

   Soak the Gelatine in the milk for about fifteen minutes and then dissolve gently over the fire.

2. 2

   Mix in the sugar and flavouring and when cool add the cream, beat all together and pour into fancy dariole moulds.

3. 3

   Serve with a dot of jam on the top of each mould, and edge with a little ring of finely chopped pistachio nuts.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A manual of gelatine cookery (1904) by Bertha Roberts, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 oz. Cox’s Gelatine. J pint Cream. 5 pint Milk. 2 Lemons. Soak the Gelatine in a little cold milk for about fifteen minutes, and then dissolve over the fire. Peel the lemons thinly and put with the cream and the rest of the milk into a covered stewpan, and let it stand in a gentle heat for one hour, taking great care to heat it very slowly and not allowing it to boil. Remove the peel, add the sugar, and strain in the Gelatine. When cool, strain in the juice of one lemon, and add the essence. Set aside until firm, then turn out on to a cold dish and serve. (72) EDINBURGH CREAM. f Cox’s Gelatine. 3 Eggs, well whisked, j pint Cream. 1^ ozs. Loaf Sugar. ^ pint Milk. 3 ozs. mixed Glac6 Fruits, soaked 1 gill of Jelly (Recipe I or 3). in a spoonful of Brandy. Mask a mould with the jelly and decorate with different coloured glace fruits, and set the fruits with a layer of jelly (see Recipe 25). Soak the Gelatine in sufficient cold milk to cover it for about fifteen minutes and then dissolve slowly over the fire. Place the rest of the milk, the cream with the sugar, into a stewpan, and bring to the boil ; then pour into a basin containing the whisked eggs ; stir well, return to the stewpan and stir until thick (but do not let it boil) ; then strain in the dissolved Gelatine and remove from the fire. When nearly cold stir in the rest of the glace fruits cut into shreds. When firm, turn out and serve. (73) SMALL STRAWBERRY MOULDS. 1 lb. Strawberries. ^ oz. Cox’s Gelatine. 2 Eggs, whisked. i oz. Castor Sugar. I pint Water. 2 ozs. Loaf Sugar. I tablespoonful Maraschino (op- i pint Jelly (Recipe i or 3). tional). A few drops Cox’s Cochineal. Mask some fancy dariole moulds with jelly ; when partly set, garnish with strawberries, coat with half-set jelly, and place on ice till set (see Recipe 25). Pick the remaining strawberries, crush, and then rub through a fine wire sieve. Make a syrup of the loaf sugar and a gill of cold water. Then place the fruit pulp, syrup, whisked eggs and Maraschino in a bowl, and whisk over a sauce- pan of boiling water. Soak the Gelatine in the rest of the water and dissolve gently over the fire ; then strain into the pulp and keep stirring over the hot water until the mixture thickens ; add 30 the cochineal, then take oft' and beat for a short time over the crushed ice. When beginning to set, fill up the moulds and set by until firm. Turn out on to a cold dish and garnish with chopped or whipped jeliy (see Recipe 28). (74) SMALL CHOCOLATE MOULDS. I oz. Cox’s Gelatine. 3 Eggs whisked. I quart Milk. 3 ozs. Castor Sugar. I tablespoonful Ground Rice or ^ lb. Chocolate Powder. Rice Flour. A small quantity of slightly I teaspoonful Cox’s Vanilla Es- sweetened whipped Cream for sence. decoration. Soak the Gelatine in sufficient milk to cover it for about fifteen minutes. Mix the ground rice smoothly with a little of the milk, and cook for ten minutes. Put the chocolate, sugar, cooked ground rice, soaked Gelatine, and remaining milk into a stewpan and stir until it comes nearly to the boil. Add the whisked eggs and stir until it thickens (do not let it boil). Strain into a basin and stir occasionally until nearly cold, then pour into small prepared dariole moulds. Set aside until firm. Turn out on to a flat dish and decorate with the whipped cream. NOTE. — Thete nionlds 'woiM ‘make a pretty a/)ul effective sweet if served on a dish with alternate small fajnoy moulds of Bla/nc- vuvuje {Jtecipes 29 to 35), decorated with different colov/red glace fruits. (75) MAFEKING CREAMS. f oz. Cox’s Gelatine. A few drops Cox’s Orange I pint Milk. Essence. \ pint whipped Cream. 2 oz. White Sugar

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