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Kirmess cook book

1907

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Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Miss Beatrice Stoats. One pint of cream^ three eggs, three-fourths cnp sugar, six stale macaroons. Beat the cream, then add the eggs and sugar and spoonful of vanillaTortoni. Beat well, then stir in the crumbs. Put in freezer and stand three hours. OAPE FRAPPB. Mrs. T. K. Egbert, New York. Boil one quart of water with half a cup of sugar, add four ounces of ground coffee, and set at the side of the stove for ten minutes. Strain, and when cold add the white of one eggOape Frappé. Freeze, and serve in individual glasses topped with whipped cream. CAPE PARFAIT. Mrs. William Mattocks. One quart thick cream, one gill strong coffee, one- half cup powdered sugarCape Parfait. Whip the cream to a stiff froth, add coffee, then sugar and pack in melon mould. Bury the mould in a mixture of cracked ice and rock salt, using two-thirds ice to one of salt. Let it stand four hours. CHOCOLATE SAUCE FOB VANILLA ICE CBEAM. Contributed. Rub four heaping tablespoonfuls of sweet chocolate (grated fine) to a smooth paste, with six tablespoonfuls of cream. Add two cupf uls of boiling wateChocolate Sauce for Vanilla Ice Creamr, and cook in a double boiler, stirring constantly, for ten minutes DESSERTS. 395 after the boil begins. Flavor with vanilla or other ex- tract when cold. Before using, beat for three minutes hard. STRAWBERRY SAUCE FOR VANILLA CREAM. Mrs, C. Eldredge, New York, Crush a pint of berries, mix with them a cupful of sugarStrawberry Sauce for Vanilla Cream; stir until dissolved; strain through a fine col- ander or a vegetable press, and set on ice until needed. HOT MAPLE SAUCE FOR VANILLA ICE CREAM. Mrs. C. Eldredge, New York. Boil a pound of maple sugar with a very little water until it begins to "thread.'' Then stir into it a half cupful of shelled English walnutsHot Maple Sauce for Vanilla Ice Cream, broken, not chopped, into bits. There should be enough to make the sauce quite thick. Pour hot over vanilla ice cream. FRUIT DESSERTS. ORANGE BASKETS. Miss Rita Oray, New York, In halving large sweet oranges leave a strip of rind on one side that may serve as a handle to the other. Dig out the pulp from under and around the ^*handle," leav- ing that in the lower ^T)a8ket'' intact. Set the baskets in ice until you are ready to serve. Tie a bow of narrow ribbon to each handle before sending to table. Eat with orange spoons. ORANGE JELLY. Miss Rita Gray, New York, Dissolve one ounce and a half of Cox's gelatine in a scant half pint of boiling water, then strain. Mix three tea- cups of orange juice with one teacup of lemon juiceOrange Jelly, strain, and add to the gelatine. Sweeten to taste with 396 KIRMESS COOK BOOK. loaf sugar and boil five or ten minutes. Beat the whites of two eggs with the eggshells, stir in the mixture, and strain through a jelly bag. Rinse a mould with cold water, pour the jelly into it, and set in cold place till it becomes cold. ITiis jelly may be used to fill orange baskets. COFFEE JELLY. Mrs. J, Elkins, New York. Make one pint and a half of strong cofifee, sweeten to taste, dissolve one-quarter of a pound of sheet gelatineCoffee Jelly in water, strain it and mix with the coffee liquid. This jelly need not be cleared. Pour into a mould or moidds and when cold and firm serve with whipped cream. PINEAPPLE JAKDINIERE. Mrs. G. K. Dickinson* Pineapple Jardinière