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1896

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Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put a teacup of tapioca into sufficient cold water ; boil until the lumps become almost transparent ; squeeze the juice of two lemonsA Simple Dessert partially into the mixture, then slice them into it, sweeten or not, then eat when cold, with cream and sugar. JELLIED GEAPES. Mrs. A. M. Lewis. A very delicate dish, is made of one-third of a cup of rice, two cups of grapes, half a cup of water, and two spoons of sugarJellied Grapes. Sprinkle the rice and sugar among the grapes, while placing them in a deep dish ; pour on the water, cover close and simmer two hours slowly in the oven. Serve cream as sauce, or cold as pudding. If served warm as pudding, increase slightly the proportion of rice and sugar. ICES. Glittering squares of colored ice, Sweetened with syrups, tinctured with spice ; Creams and cordials and sugared dates ; Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes. ******* And all that the curious palate could wish. Pass in and out of tha cedarn doors. — T. B. Aldrich. Use one part of coarse table salt to two parts of ice broken the size of a walnut. This should be firmly packed around the cream pail to the height of the freezer. For three pints of cream, one and a half pints of water should be poured over the ice in the freezer, and for every additional quart of cream one pint of water should be added to the ice after packing. When there is no ice- cream freezer convenient, ices may be frozen by putting the cream to be frozen in a tin pail with a close cover. This ice and salt for packing may be put in a larger pail and packed firmly around the pail of cream to be frozen. Let this stand to chill for twenty or thirty minutes, then remove the cover and stir the freezing mixture within (249) 250 THE HOME COOK BOOK. until stiff. Then re-pack, cover the whole closely with a woolen cloth or carpet and leave for an hour or two in a cool place. CUREANT ICE. One pint of currant juice, one pound oi sugar, and one pint of water ; put in freezer, and when partly frozen add the whites of three eggs well beaten. OEANGE A]^D LEMON ICES. The rind of three oranges grated and steeped a few moments in a little more than a pint of water; strain one pint of this on a pound of sugar and then add one pint of orange or lemon iuice; pour in the freezer, and when half frozen add the whites of four eggsOrange and Lemon Ices beaten to a stiff froth. OEANGE ICE. Juice of six oranges, grated peel of three, juice of two lemons, one pint of sugar, one pint of waterOrange Ice, and freeze STEAWBEEEY ICE CEEAM. From " In the Kitchen." Mash with a potato pounder in an earthen bowl one quart of strawberries with one pound of sugar, rub it through the colander and add one quart of sweet creamStrawberry Ice Cream and freeze. Very ripe peaches or coddled apples may be used instead of strawberries. VALUABLE EECIPES. 251 STEAWBEKEY ICE. From "In the Kitchen." Crush two quarts of strawberries with two pounds of sugar; let them stand an hour or more; squeeze them in a straining cloth, pressing out all the juice ; add to this an equal measure of water, and when half frozen, the whisked whites of eggs in the proportion of three to a quartStrawberry Ice. ICE CEEAM M.