Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

• 1 tea-cupful strawberry jam
• oz. leaf gelatine
• 2 oz. sugar
• pint milk
• pint water
• pint cream
• A few drops of carmine

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the gelatine in the water.

2. 2

   Mix jam with milk, and rub through a hair sieve.

3. 3

   Put gelatine and water in a pan, place over fire to get hot; add sugar and lemon-juice; add to jam, and mix well.

4. 4

   Whip the cream till quite stiff, stir the fruit-juice, etc., to the cream; add a few drops of carmine.

5. 5

   Pour into a wetted mould.

6. 6

   When set, dip in warm water and turn out.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery (1905) by E. Crichton, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ice of 3 lemons. i\ oz. gelatine (leaf). Whites and shells of 2 eggs. 74 HOUSEHOLD COOKERY in a warm place lo minutes. Pour into a jelly-bag or coarse towel through which boiling w^ater has been poured, and when it begins to run clear pour the first lot of jelly back into the bag, changing the basin that was placed underneath. Aspic Jelly I quart water. 1 small onion. \ carrot. 2 or 3 cloves. 1 bay-leaf. \ pint vinegar. Whites and shells of 2 eggs. 2 oz. leaf gelatine. 2 turnips. Small piece celery. 1 tea-spoonful salt. \ tea-spoonful pepper. Rind and juice of i lemon. 2 table-spoonfuls tarragon vine- gar. Method. — Put water and vegetables in a pan, cook slowly for half an hour, strain, put back in pan with gelatine and lemon \ stir till gelatine is dissolved ; cool ; add whites and shells (slightly beaten), tarragon, and vinegar, whisk over fire till it boils, stop w^hisking, boil up well, cover. Stand in warm place 10 minutes. Strain as for lemon jelly. Use when cold and set. This jelly is used for garnishing only. Strawberry Cream 1 tea-cupful strawberry jam. \ oz. leaf gelatine. 2 oz. sugar. \ pint milk. \ pint water. } pint cream. Juice of \ lemon. A few drops of carmine

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