Prepare a custard with a quart of rich milk, a pint of cream, a pound of
sugar, and the yolks of eight eggs. Set it on the fire and stir
constantly until it begins to thicken; remove from the fire, and when it
is cold add three tablespoonfuls of brandy, one teaspoonful of vanilla,
one teaspoonful of almond extract. Put in the freezer, and when
partially frozen add a quarter of a pound of stoned raisins that have
been cooked a little in water to soften them, a quarter of a pound of
currants, a quarter of a pound of citron cut fine. Freeze smooth and put
in a mould and pack in ice and salt.
WINDSOR ROCK PUNCH.
For twenty-four persons. Boil two quarts of cream; mix with it half a
pound of granulated sugar and twelve eggs. Freeze the same as ice cream.
Take one-half of the frozen mixture and add to it two wineglasses of
Maraschino, one wineglass of Kirsch, and one-half wineglass of Santa
Cruz rum; mix. When serving add a small lump of the frozen mixture to a
punch glass of the other, or liquid.
Cakes.
CAKE MAKING.
Have all the ingredients measured or weighed, the pans lined with paper
or oiled, the nuts or fruit prepared, and the flour sifted before
beginning to make a cake. Sift the baking powder and cream of tartar and
soda with the flour or a part of it. Use pastry flour for all cake.
Never put all the milk into a cake batter by itself, as it curdles and
makes a coarse grained cake, but stir it in alternately with the flour.
Put all loaves of cake into a moderate oven, that they may rise before
beginning to bake. After the cake rises the heat may be increased.
ANGEL CAKE.
The whites of nine large, fresh eggs. When they are partly beaten add
one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar and then finish beating--the
cream of tartar makes them lighter--then add one and a quarter cups of
granulated sugar, stir the sugar very lightly into the whites of the
eggs, and add a teaspoonful of vanilla. Have flour sifted five times,
measure a cupful and fold it in very carefully, not with a circular
motion, and do not stir long. Turn it into a Turk's head mould and bake
forty-five minutes. Do not grease the mould, and when taken out of the
oven invert it until the cake is cold before removing from the pan.
Never use a patent egg-beater for this cake, but a whip, taking long,
rapid strokes, and make it in a large platter, not a bowl.
BERLINERKRANDS (a Norwegian Cake).
Half a pound of butter washed in two waters and beaten to a cream, two
hard-boiled egg yolks mashed fine and stirred into two raw egg yolks,
four ounces of powdered sugar stirred into the eggs, then mix all with
the butter, add a pound of flour and a wineglass of brandy, mix well.
Roll under the hand and make into small jumble cakes or krunchens. Beat
the white of an egg, dip each cake into it and then roll in granulated
sugar, bake a delicate brown in a very slow oven fifteen or twenty
minutes. Grease the tins.
BLUEBERRY CAKE.
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