Original White House Cookbook

Mash very smooth two cupfuls of canned peaches, rub them through a sieve and cook for three minutes in a syrup made by boiling together one cupful of sugar and stirring all the time. Place the pan containing the syrup and peaches into another of boiling water and add one-half packet of gelatine, prepared the same as in previous recipes, and stir for five minutes to thoroughly dissolve the gelatine ; then take it from the fire, place in a pan of ice-water, beat until nearly cool and then add the well-frothed whites of six eggs. Beat this whole mixture until it commences to harden. Then pour into a mold, set away to cool and serve with cream and sugar. It should be placed on the ice to cool for two or three hours before serving. PEACH CREAM. No. 2. A QUART of fine peaches, pare and stone the fruit and cut in quarters. Beat the whites of three eggs with a half cupful of powdered sugar until it is stiff enough to cut with a knife. Take the yolks and mix with half a cupful of granulated sugar and a pint of milk. Put the peaches into the mixture, place in a pudding-dish and bake until almost firm ; then put in the whites, mixing all thoroughly again, and bake a light brown. Eat ice cold. ITALIAN CREAM. Put two pints of cream into two bowls ; with one bowl mix six ounces of powdered loaf sugar, the juice of two large lemons and two glassfuls of white wine ; then add the other pint of cream and stir the whole very hard ; boil two ounces of isinglass or gelatine with four small teacupfuls of water till reduced to one-half; then stir the mixture luke-warm into the other ingredients; put them in a glass dish to congeal. SNOW CREAM. Heat a quart of thick, sweet cream ; when ready to boil, stir into it quickly three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch flour, blended with some cold cream ; sweeten to taste and allow it to boil gently, stirring for two or three minutes ; add quickly the whites of six eggs, beaten to a stiff froth ; do not allow it to boil up more than once after adding the eggs ; flavor with lemon, vanilla, bitter almond or grated lemon peel ; lay the snow thus formed quickly in rocky heaps on silver or glass dishes, or in shapes. Iced, it will turn out well. If the recipe is closely followed, any family may enjoy it at a trifling expense, and it is really worthy the table of an epicure. It can be made the day before it is to be eaten; kept cold. MOCK ICE. Take about three tablespoonfuls of some good preserve ; rub it through a sieve with as much cream as will fill a quart mold ; dissolve threequarters of an ounce of isinglass or gelatine in half a pint of water ; when almost cold, mix it well with the cream ; put it into a mold, set it in a cool place and turn out next day. PEACH MERINGUE.