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Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Soak the gelatine in the cold water. Chill and whip the cream. Boil the cream left in the bowl with milk enough to make a pint in all. Add the sugar, and when boiling- add the soaked gelatine. Stir until dissolved, and strain it into the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Add the vanilla, and the wine, if you approve. Stir well, and when slightly thickened add the whipped cream. When stiff enough to drop, add the French fruit. Mould it, and garnish with wine jelly ^ fruity and green leaves. Or add one pint of blanched almonds ov pistachio nuts, chopped fine, instead of the fruit. Combinations of Jelly, Cream, Custard, and Cake. Boyal Diplomatic Pudding. {Miss Parloa. ) — Make lemon, orange, or wine jelly, using only two thirds of a pint of boiling water, that it may be stiff enough to mould. fruit in some fanciful design. Cut cherries in halves, and cut plums to represent leaves, and arrange them like a cluster of cherries ; or cut the cherries smaller, and design a branch of barberries. Fasten each piece of fruit in place Creme Diplomats. {Miss M. L. Clarke.) box gelatine. 4 eggs (whites) 3^ cup cold water. 1 teaspoonful vanilla. 1 pint cream. 1 tablespoonful wine. ^ cup sugar. 1 cup French fruit. Fig. 48. Royal Diplomatic PuddingRoyal Diplomatic Pudding. Strain it into a pitcher. Place a two-quart mould in a pan of ice water ; pour in jelly half an inch deep. When hard, put in candied The Boston Cook Book, 359 with a few drops of the liquid jelly, and when hard add jelh' to cover the fruit. When this is hard, place a smaller mould in the centre on the jelly and fill with ice. Pour the remainder of the jellj' between the two moulds, adding it slowly, and dropping in fruit here and there, if you clioose, until the mould is full. When the jelly is all firm, remove the ice, and add warm^ not hot^ w^ater to the smaller mould, and take it out carefull}', without breaking the wall of jelly. Fill the space with a Bavarian cream (page 356). Make a rich soft custard with the yolks of Jive eggs^ half a cup of sugar ^ and a pint of milk; strain, and flavor with vanilla. When ready to serve, dip the mould in warm w^ater, put a dish over it, and invert dish and mould together. Remove the mould carefuU}', and pour the soft custard around the pudding. Make the soft custard w^liile the jelly is hardening ; and do not put the materials for the Bavarian cream together until the small mould is removed from the jelly, and the cavit}^ ready for the cream. Do not turn out of the mould until just before it goes to the table, as the slightest jarring breaks the jellj'. A coffee cup within a quart bowl, and a small pail within a larger one, have been successfully used by those who had no moulds. A variet}^ of dishes may be made by using the differ- ent colored jellies and fruits ; and any of the creams stiff* enough to mould can be used as filling. Snow Pudding, or Creme Diplomate and Wine Jelly^ Norfolk Cream and Lemon Jelly ^ Orange Sponge and Orange Jelly ^ are attractive combinations. It may also be made in two sizes of small moulds, serving one mould to each person.