Wafers, Fruit (for dessert)

Name: Wafers, Fruit (for dessert)
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: any kind of ripe, well-flavored fruit; each pint of filtered juice; 1 lb. of powdered white sugar; the white of an egg

From Harper's cook book encyclopædia, 1902

Serves 6

Turn it upside down and put it again in the oven until perfectly dry. Stamp it in shapes and place these between sheets of white paper in layers in a tin box.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wafers, Fruit (for dessert). — Take any kind of ripe, well-flavored fruit. Put it into an earthen jar, cover close- ly, and set it in a pan of boiling water. Keep the water boiling quickly round it till the juice flows freely from the fruit. Strain it through a jelly- bag, and with each pint of filtered juice mix i lb. of powdered white sugar and the white of an egg

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