Vanilla Cream

Ingredients

• ½ pint double cream
• 1½ pint milk
• Essence of vanilla
• ½ oz. Cox’s gelatine
• 2 ozs. sugar
• Preserved fruit

Method

1. 1

   Whip the cream and milk together until thick.

2. 2

   Flavour with essence of vanilla.

3. 3

   Dissolve in a basin placed in a pan of boiling water the gelatine and 2 ozs of sugar in a gill of water.

4. 4

   When this has slightly cooled, strain through muslin gradually into the whipped cream, which should be stirred slowly.

5. 5

   Pour into a wet mould.

6. 6

   Turn out when set, and garnish with chopped preserved fruit scattered over.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint milk. I 2 teaspoonfuls essence of vanilla. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. Soak the gelatine in a teacupful of tepid water for an hour. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, beat the yolks, and put in a saucepan with gelatine, milk, and sugar. Bring to the boiling point, but don’t boil. Add flavouring. Lift from the fire, stir in the whites of eggs, wet a mould and pour in the cream. Set in a cool place to firm. It is better made the night before using. Pour off any water not taken up by the gelatine. Miss Eadie, Langside. SPANISH CREAM. i box of Cox’s gela'.ine. j 3 pints of milk. 6 eggs. I 12 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar. 1 dessertspoonful of vanilla. Let the milk come to the boil. Then stir in gelatine. When dissolved, pour it over the yolks of eggs and sugar beaten together. Put all back in pan and let it come to the boil. Take off and put in flavouring and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Miss Wade. STRAWBERRY CREAM. I lb. strawberry jam. | Whites of 3 eggs. Beat the eggs and jam together for half an hour. Serve with sponge fingers, or fill meringue cases with the mixture. Mrs. W. A. Bowie, Tulse Hill, London. VANILLA CREAM. \ pint double cream. I i pint milk. Essence of vanilla. J oz. Cox’s gelatine. 2 ozs. sugar. | Preserved fruit

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