Strawberry Cream

Ingredients

• one pound of strawberries
• half a pound of pounded sogar
• the juice of a lemon
• one ounce and a half of gelatine
• a pint and a half of dr/uble cream

Method

1. 1

   Pick the stalks off the strawberries and rub the fruit through a silk sieve into a basin.

2. 2

   Mix in the pounded sugar and lemon juice.

3. 3

   Steep the gelatine in cold water for fifteen minutes, dissolve it with a little water, and strain it into the strawberry pulp.

4. 4

   Whisk the double cream and mix it in as for vanilla cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pound of strawberries and rob the fruit through a silk sieve or tammy into a basin ; mix in half a pound of pounded sogar and the juice of a lemon ; steep one ounce and a half of gelatine for fifteen minutes in cold water, dissolve it in a small stewpan on the fire with a little water, and strain it through a pointed strainer into the strawberrj pulp. Whisk a pint and a half of dr/uble cream, and proceed to finish it as for vanilla cream. Noie, — Raspberries and red currants are prepared in the same manner as the abora A copper sugar-boiler should always be used to prepare red fruit, as tinned stewpans will destroy their colour. see. CREAM A LA ROHAINE. Blanch four ounces of Jordan with one ounce of bitter almonds ; remove the skins, wipe them dry, and chop them rather fine; put these in a sugar-boiler, and stir them over the fire with a wooden spoon until they have acquired a light-brown colour ; then throw them into a pint of milk, kept boiling for that purpose; add to it six ounces of sugar and eight yolks of eggs ; stir the whole PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 425 • quickly until the yolks are set. Remove the boiler from the fire, and continue stirring for a few minutes longer ; then add one ounce and a half of melted gelatine (see Strawberry Cream

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