Turkish Delight Sweet

Ingredients

• i pt. of Milk
• X oz. leaf Gelatine
• i oz. Loaf Sugar
• Essence of Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• 2 ozs. of Turkish Delight

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the gelatine and sugar in the milk, add the eggs and the flavouring.

2. 2

   Cook as for a custard, and when it has sufficiently thickened add the Turkish delight cut in small dice.

3. 3

   Stir it occasionally as it cools and then pour it into a mould or let it cool in a basin, and pile it up in a rocky form on a dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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