The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use IceHiles, Theron L.
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The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice
Hiles, Theron L.
Ice
CHERRY ICE.--Two pounds of cherries picked, pounded and boiled with a
gill of water in a porcelain vessel. Rub through a sieve. Add one pint
of thick syrup, one pint of cream, and a few drops of essence of the
kernels. Mix. Freeze twenty minutes.
BLACKBERRY ICE.--Put as many blackberries as you wish to stew, and
sweeten to taste. When done put in a bag and strain. When cold, freeze.
MACARONI CUSTARD.--Take one quart of milk, set it on to boil. Mix
one-half tablespoonful of butter and three of flour, and stir into the
boiling milk. Beat the yolks of six eggs with one-half cup of sugar.
Stir into the milk, and take from fire to cool. Flavor with vanilla,
then crumble one dozen fresh macaroons over the top and pile on the
meringue. Serve ice cold.
BOILED CUSTARD.--One quart of milk, two eggs, one tablespoonful of corn
starch, one teacup of sugar. Flavor with vanilla. Boil milk and sugar,
then add starch and eggs well beaten together. Place on ice before
serving.
FLOATING ISLAND.--One quart of milk, four eggs--whites and yolks beaten
separately--four tablespoonfuls of sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla,
one-half cup of currant jelly. Heat the milk to scalding, but not
boiling. Beat the yolks, stir into them the sugar and pour upon them
gradually, mixing well a cup of hot milk. Return to saucepan and boil
until it begins to thicken. Pour into glass dish. Heap upon the top
meringue of whites whipped very stiff, into which you have beaten the
jelly, a teaspoonful at a time. Serve ice cold.
BLANC MANGE.--Sweeten one quart of cream and flavor to suit the taste.
Dissolve one tablespoon of gelatine in hot water and pour into the
cream. Set on ice and serve with whipped cream.
CORN STARCH BLANC MANGE.--Dissolve three tablespoonfuls of corn starch
in one pint of milk. Add three teaspoonfuls of sugar and three beaten
eggs. Put this mixture into a pint of boiling milk. Flavor to taste.
Pour into cup. Serve with jelly and whipped cream.
VELVET BLANC MANGE.--Two cups of sweet cream. One-half cup of gelatine
dissolved in hot water. One-half cup of powdered sugar. One small
glass of white wine. Flavor with almond extract. Boil cream, sugar and
gelatine until it is smooth, then take it from the fire and flavor by
adding the wine last. Stir well and put in fancy mould on ice. Serve
with cream.
LEMON JELLY.--To a package of gelatine add one pint of cold water and
the juice of four lemons. In an hour it will be sufficiently dissolved
to add a pint of boiling water and three scant cups of sugar. Let it
just come to a boil. Strain through cheese cloth into fancy moulds. Set
on ice, and serve with rich cream.
STRAWBERRY ICE.--Crush three quarts of strawberries with two and
one-half pounds of sugar. Let them stand an hour. Squeeze through a
straining bag. Add an equal amount of water to the juice, and when half
frozen add the beaten whites of three eggs. Any juicy fruit may be
prepared in the same manner, currants and raspberries being especially
good.
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