Vanilla Cream

Ingredients

• Milk 1½ pints.
• Cream ½ pint.
• Lump sugar to taste.
• Brandy 1 tablespoonful.
• Eggs 4 yolks (well beaten).
• Vanilla essence ½ teaspoonful.
• Gelatine ½ oz.

Method

1. 1

   Melt the gelatine and sugar in the milk, add the yolks of eggs, and stir till it has thickened, but on no account let it boil.

2. 2

   Take it off the fire, add the cream, brandy and vanilla.

3. 3

   Stir often till the cream is cool, then mould it.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home cookery (1898) by North Midland School of Cookery, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gelatine f oz. (melted in a very little milk). I tablespoonful. to taste. I teaspoonful. Brandy Castor sugar Lemon juice Almonds (blanched and sliced). Angelica (cut in strips). Let the mould stand in cold water. After it is emptied ornament it with almonds and angelica, and pour in a little lemon jelly to set them. Put in the rest of the lemon jelly, and when that is set put in the red jelly. Add sugar and lemon juice to the cream, whip it to a stiff froth, then stir in the custard, gelatine and brandy. When the jelly is quite set, put in a little of the cream mixture ; then, in the middle, where it will not be seen outside the cream, put in the sponge biscuit soaked in sherry, and the cherries, almonds and ang'elica. Fill up with the cream, and turn out on the following day. Creme de Banane. Take half a pint of orange jelly (p. 127), using three- quarters of an ounce of gelatine to this quantity. Have ready four large bananas rubbed through a hair sieve, I30 add to them two tablespoonfuls of apricot jam (sieved), and a large wineglass of maraschino. Mix this with the orange jelly, colour with carmine, and pour into a glass dish. When set cover with a pint of cream (whipped), sweetened and flavoured with maraschino. Ornament with some of the cream (striped pink), using a large rose pipe. Sprinkle with shred pistachios, and between the roses place small round pink meringues or ratafia biscuits. The banana mixture makes a pretty sweet if it is set in a border mould. Turn out when firm, and fill centre with whipped cream. Vanilla Cream. Milk \\ pints. Cream \ pint. Lump sugar to taste. Brandy i tablespoonful. Eggs 4 yolks (well beaten). Vanilla essence \ teaspoonful.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.