Quince Blanc-Mange

Ingredients

• Juice of quinces, 1 pint
• isinglass, 1 oz.
• Sugar, 10 oz.
• Cream, 0.5 pint

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve isinglass in quince juice over a clear fire, add sugar and stir until it jellies.

2. 2

   Remove scum, mix with cream, and stir until nearly cold.

3. 3

   Pour into a mould rubbed with oil or dipped in cold water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 420. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

QUINCE BLANC-MANGE, (Delicious.) This, if carefully made, and with ripe quinces, is one of the most richly-flavoured preparations of fruit that we have ever tasted ; and the receipt, we may venture to say, will be altogether new to the reader. Dissolve in a pint of prepared juice of quinces (see page 456), an ounce of the best isinglass ; next, add ten ounces of sugar, roughly pounded, and stir these together gently over a clear fire, from twenty to thirty minutes, or until the juice jellies in falling from the spoon. Bemove the scum carefully, and pour the boiling jelly gradually to half a pint of thick cream, stirring them briskly together as they are mixed : they must be stirred until very nearly cold, and then poured into a mould which has been rubbed in every part with the smallest possible quantity of very pure salad oil, or if more convenient, into one that has been dipped into cold water. Obs.— This blancmanger which we had made originally on the thought of the moment for a friend, proved so very rich in flavour, that we inserted the exact receipt for it, as we had had it made on our first trial ; but it might be simplified by merely boiling the juice, sugar, and isinglass, together for a few minutes, and then mixing them with the cream. An ounce and a half of isinglass and three-quarters of a pint of cream might then be used for it. The juice of other fruit may be substituted for that of the quinces, Juice of quinces, 1 pint ; isinglass, 1 oz. : 5 to 10 minutes. Sugar, 10 oz .

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.