Peach Parfait

Ingredients

• Slice thinly enough peaches to make 0.5 c
• cover with 0.5 c sugar
• Cook 0.5 c sugar
• and 2 T water
• pour onto the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs
• whip 1 c cream
• juice of 0.5 lemon

Method

1. 1

   Slice peaches and cover with sugar.

2. 2

   Cook sugar and water to thread stage, pour onto beaten egg whites while beating.

3. 3

   Whip cream and fold in with peach puree and lemon juice.

4. 4

   Turn into a mould, seal, and bury in salt and ice for 3-4 hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals (1912) by Eva Roberta Robinson, page 213. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Peach Parfait for dinner, mould, seal and pack; then the Salamagundi Salad. Sunday Breakfast — Cost Food Units Two Bananas $0.04 200 Eggs soft cooked 068 400 Toast and Butter 038 600 Cream for Fruit and Coffee 062 400 Sugar for Fruit and Coffee 007 2.33 Oatmeal Cookies (1/6 Recipe) 025 478 Total Breakfast $0,280 2,311 DINNER Sunday Lesson 238 SMOTHERED CHICKEN NEW POTATOES SALAMAGUNDI SALAD PEACH PARFAIT CAKE Smothered Chicken Cut a tender fowl into pieces for serving, spread with 2 T butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and arrange in a stewpan. Add i c boiling water, cover, and cook slowly until the chicken is tender. For a young fowl, i h will be 384 LESSONS IN COOKING ample. Longer time will be required for an old one. Add I c cream and 2 c fresh mushrooms cut into small pieces. Recover, cook 10 m longer, thicken the gravy with a roux made of i T butter and i^ T flour, and cook 3 m, stirring all the time. Serve at once. Salamagundi Salad In the bottom of small moulds, or one large mould, place a layer of bottled "pearl onions." Line the sides of the moulds with alternate strips of red and green sweet peppers or pimentoes and green string beans. Over the pearl onions place a layer of sliced tomatoes, then string beans, then a few cooked peas, with sliced tomatoes on top. Soak 2 T granu- lated gelatin in 54 c cold water, dissolve in i^ c boiling water, add 6 T lemon juice, and ^ c sugar. Mix all well together, and pour over the salad, until it comes to the top of the moulds. Set away in a cold place until well set, chill, then turn out of the moulds, and serve. Asparagus may be used instead of the beans, and other substitutes may be made if desired. Peach Parfait Slice thinly enough peaches to make }i c, and cover with J^ c sugar. Cook ^ c sugar and 2 T water to the thread stage, and pour onto the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs, beat- ing, well all the time. While this is cooling whip i c cream

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