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Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

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Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

by Shuman, Carrie V. · Page 97 of 124 · 43,360 words

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cup sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful vanilla, one tablespoonful wine. Soak the gelatine in cold water till soft. Chill and whip the cream till you have three pints. Keep the whipped cream on ice, and boil the remainder of the cream, adding enough milk to make a pint in all. Beat the yolks of the eggs, and add the sugar and salt. Pour the boiling milk on the eggs, and when well mixed put back in the double boiler and cook about two minutes, or just enough to scald the egg. Stir constantly, add the soaked gelatine, and strain at once into a pan set in ice water. When cool, add the vanilla and wine. Stir until it begins to harden, then stir in quickly the whipped cream, and when nearly stiff enough to drop, pour into moulds wet in cold water. _Chocolate Bavarian Cream_--Melt two sticks of sweetened chocolate, and stir them into the custard before straining. GELATINE CREAM. From MISS MARY ELLIOTT MCCANDLESS, of Pennsylvania, Lady Manager. To a pint of cream add half a cupful of powdered sugar and a teaspoonful vanilla extract; whip it to a stiff froth; dissolve a quarter of a box of gelatine in two wine glasses of sherry heated, but not allowed to boil; let this cool a little, then stir into the cream; pour the whole in a mould and set it on the ice to stiffen. NOB HILL PUDDING. From MISS LIDA M. RUSSELL, of Nevada, Lady Manager. For one pint thick cream dissolve four sheets of isinglass in four tablespoons of hot water; whip cream until thick, sweeten and flavor; have isinglass warm enough to pour, but not too hot; stir in very fast and put in mould to cool. APPLE CHARLOTTE. From MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN, District of Columbia, Lady Manager. Mix one pint of stewed apples with one cup of sugar; the grilled rind and juice of one lemon; soak one-third of a box of gelatine in one- third of a cup of cold water twenty minutes; add one-third of a cup of boiling water to

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