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1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Vanilla Ice-cream. — ^Mix three pints sweet cream, pint new milk, pint pulverized sugar, whites of two eggsVanilla Ice-cream, beaten li^ht ; freeze. Serve plain or as Fruit Surprise by lining a mold with it, then fill center with fresh berries, sweetenea. or fruit cut in slices, and cover with the ice-cream, put on lid, bind and set in freezer for half an hour, with salt and ice well packed around it. The fruit must be chilled, but not frozen. Strawberries and peaches are delicious thus prepared. Or for Vanilla Custard Ice-creamy cook in kettle in proportion of one (]|uart cream, six eggs and teacup and a half sugar ; strain, cool, add third of tablespoon vanilla and freeze as directed ; reserving the whites, beating and adding when custarri iff half frozen, makes it lighter : adding when this is frozen ready to pack, half pint mixed candied cherries, raisins^ currants and citron prepared as in Cabinet Ice-cream, makes Tatt% PrvUi Ice-cream^ Cream Biscuit.-^Theseaxe generally made of all cream,although we give a recipe with part milk and three with a syrup. The cream must be pure double cream, whipped to a stiff froth and drained on sieve as directed. There are only one or two kinds that are frozen as ice-cream ; for the others, molds^ paper cases, fruit cases, etc., are filled with the mixture and placed m the cave, as directed, for three or four hours. The cave in which the ice-cream freezer is utilized is best, and using the same care in packing as with ice-cream there would be no necessity for a different cover or for binding the joint ICES AND IGE-CBEAlff. 861 after covered ; so the only additional article needed would be a set of shelves to fill the size freezer used, and it tirould be wise to have two or three extra shelves with feet of different heights so that in- dividual molds, glasses, fniit cases and any other receptacle in which ice-cream, oiscuits, ices, etc., are molded could be frozen. Or as a substitujbe for all a large tin pail can be used for freezer and round pieces to fit made of heavy white card-board for shelves, plac- ing them on top each layer of cases, etc. When thus used ao not fill cases quite full and after placing a layer of them in pail, cover with a round piece of clean white paper to fit, then the card-board shelf, then more cases and so on till aliare used, when cover pail^ pack and finish as directed. Below are recipes of different varieties of biscuits. Custard Biscuit — Beat well eight yolks of eggs, with teacup and a quarter sugar, a very little salt and one pint cream. Stir over the fire until slightly thickened. Flavor with either vanilla pow- der, the almond or lemon extract or coffee or chocolaCustard Biscuitte. It may also be made by adding & puree of peaches, strawberries, raspberries, ox pine-apple to custard. Freeze as ice-cream and when half frozen stir in lightly one-half pint of cream, whipped ; then partly fill pa- per cases with the mixture, smooth over the tops and place in ice- cream cave. Fruit Biscuit — Beat yolks of eight eggs and four teacups sugar well together, add c^uart of anv fruit juice, cook in custard kettle, strain and place on ice, and add to it two ounces gelatine, dis- solved by adding a very little warm water, placing it in pan oi hot water and setting on back of range. When mixture thickens add quart creamFruit Biscuit, fill cases, and place in cave.