Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take two quarts of ripe strawberries; hull them, and put them into a
deep dish, strewing among them half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar.
Cover them, and let them stand an hour or two. Then mash them through a
sieve till you have pressed out all the juice, and stir into it half a
pound more of powdered sugar, or enough to make it very sweet, and like
a thick syrup. Then mix it by degrees with two quarts of rich cream,
beating it in very hard. Put it into a freezer, and proceed as in the
foregoing receipt. In two hours, remove it to a mould, or take it out
and return it again to the freezer with fresh salt and ice, that it may
be frozen a second time. In two hours more, it should be ready to turn
out.
RASPBERRY ICE CREAM.
Is made according to the preceding receipt.
PINE-APPLE ICE CREAM.
To each quart of cream allow a large ripe pine-apple, and a pound of
powdered loaf-sugar. Pare the pine-apple, slice it very thin, and mince
it small. Lay it in a deep dish and strew the sugar among it. Cover the
dish, and let the pine-apple lie in the sugar for two or three hours.
Then strain it through a sieve, mashing and pressing out all the juice.
Stir the juice gradually into the cream, beating it hard. Put it into
the freezer, and let it be twice frozen before it is served up.
VANILLA ICE CREAM.
Split up half a vanilla bean, and boil it slowly in half a pint of milk
till all the flavour is drawn out, which you may know by tasting it.
Then mix into the milk half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, and stir it
very hard into a quart of rich cream. Put it into the freezer, and
proceed as directed in the receipt for Lemon Ice Cream; freezing it
twice.
ALMOND ICE CREAM.
Take six ounces of bitter almonds, (sweet ones will not do,) blanch
them, and pound them in a mortar, adding by degrees a little rose
water. Then boil them gently in a pint of cream till you find that it
is highly flavoured with them. Then pour the cream into a bowl, stir in
a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, cover it, and set it away to cool
gradually; when it is cold, strain it and then stir it gradually and
hard into three pints of cream. Put it into the freezer, and proceed as
directed in the first ice cream receipt. Freeze it twice. It will be
found very fine.
Send round always with ice cream, sponge cake or Savoy biscuits.
Afterwards wine, and cordials, or liqueurs as they are now generally
called.
ICE ORANGEADE.
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