Make a custard with one quart milk, four eggs, one teacup sugar. Stir
into it while boiling, half a box gelatine after it has soaked ten
minutes. Season with vanilla, and pour in moulds. Eat with whipped
cream.--_Mrs. E. P. G._
ARROW-ROOT BLANC-MANGE.
Boil in a saucepan (tightly covered) one quart milk and a piece of
vanilla bean. Stir into half a pint cream, a teacup arrow-root, and a
little sauce, mixing them smoothly. Pour into this the quart boiling
milk, stir it well, put it in the saucepan again and let it simmer ten
minutes. Sweeten to your taste. Set it in moulds to cool. Eat with
cream, flavored to your taste.--_Mrs. H._
CHOCOLATE MANGE.
Dissolve one ounce Cox's gelatine in a pint cold water. Let it stand
an hour. Then boil two quarts of milk, and add to it six ounces
chocolate with the gelatine. Sweeten to your taste and pour into
moulds. Eat with sauce made of cream, wine, and sugar.--_Mrs. W. H.
L._
COFFEE MANGE.
One cupful very strong coffee, one cupful sugar, one cupful rich
cream. Dissolve half a box gelatine in two cupfuls milk, over the
fire. Add the cream last, after the rest is cool. Pour in a mould to
congeal.--_Mrs. McG._
CHARLOTTE RUSSE.
One pint milk made into a custard with the yolks of six eggs,
sweetened with half a pound sugar, and flavored with vanilla. Strain
into the custard, one ounce isinglass, dissolved in two cupfuls milk.
When this mixture is cold and begins to stiffen, mix with it
gradually, one pint rich cream, previously whipped to a froth. Then
put strips of sponge cake around the mould and put the Charlotte Russe
in. Turn it out when ready to serve.--_Mrs. W. C. R._
_Charlotte Russe._
Soak three-quarters of a package of gelatine in three teacups fresh
milk. Make a custard of one and a half pint fresh milk, three-quarters
of a pound of sugar, and the yolks of eight eggs. When it has boiled,
add the gelatine, and flavor with vanilla. When it begins to congeal,
stir in a quart rich cream, whipped to a froth.--_Mrs. M._
_Charlotte Russe._
Have a tin or earthernware mould six inches high, and the same in
diameter (or oblong, if you like). Slice sponge cake or lady-fingers
and line the mould with them. Then beat three pints rich cream to a
froth, and put the froth on a sieve to drain the milk from it. Take
one pint calf's-foot jelly (or one and a half ounces gelatine), half a
pint rich milk, and the yolks of six eggs. Place over a slow fire, and
beat till they nearly boil. Then take them off the fire and beat till
cool. Put in the frothed cream, sweeten to your taste, flavor with
vanilla, and stir all well together. Fill the mould and place it on
ice to cool.--_Mrs. W. H. L._
_Strawberry Charlotte Russe._
Six eggs, one ounce isinglass, one quart milk. Sweeten to the taste
and flavor with vanilla. Pour into moulds. Then put it on sponge cake,
covered with strawberry jam, and pour around the dish whipped cream,
sweetened and flavored with wine.--_Mrs. McG._
CHARLOTTE RUSSE.
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