Strawberry Foam

Ingredients

• a pint of capped strawberries
• Yz oz. of gelatine
• three tablespoonfuls of sugar
• the juice of one lemon
• a half-pint of whipped cream

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle strawberries with sugar and set aside for an hour.

2. 2

   Press berries in a sieve to extract juice.

3. 3

   Soak gelatine in cold water for half an hour, then add sugar and heat to boiling point until dissolved.

4. 4

   Stir in strawberry juice and lemon juice, strain, and cool until thickening.

5. 5

   Beat in whipped cream and chill on ice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 202. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strawberry Foam. — Sprinkle a pint of capped strawberries with sugar, and set them aside in this for an hour, when the juice will be found to run freely. Press the berries in a sieve and extract all the juice. Have ready Yz oz. of gelatine soaked in cold water for half an hour ; add to this three table- spoonfuls of sugar, and heat to the boiling-point. When the gelatine is thoroughly dissolved, stir in the strawberry-juice and the juice of one lemon ; strain, and when it is cool and begins to thicken beat into it a half-pint of whipped cream

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