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New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
by Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · Page 142 of 240 · 83,971 words
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pint of cream with a stick of cinnamon, and some lemonpeel; take it off the fire, and pour it very slowly into the yelks of four eggs, stirring till half cold: sweeten, and take out the spice, &c. Pour it into the dish; when cold, strew white pounded sugar over, and brown it with a salamander. _Rice and Sago Milks_ Are made by washing the seeds nicely, and over a slow fire simmering with milk till sufficiently done. The former sort requires lemon, spice and sugar; the latter is fine without anything to flavour it. _Lemon Honeycomb._ Sweeten the juice of a lemon to your taste, and put it in the dish that you serve it in. Mix the white of an egg that is beaten with a pint of rich cream, and a little sugar; whisk it, and as the froth rises put it on the lemonjuice. Do it the day before it is to be used. _Coffee Cream. Much admired._ Boil a calf’s foot in water till it wastes to a pint of jelly: clear it of sediment and fat. Make a teacup of very strong coffee; clear it with a bit of isinglass to be perfectly bright; pour it to the jelly, and add a pint of very good cream, and as much fine Lisbon sugar as is pleasant. Give one boil up, and pour into the dish. It should jelly, but not be stiff. Observe that your coffee be fresh. _Orange Fool._ Mix the juice of three Seville oranges, three eggs well beaten, a pint of cream, a little nutmeg and cinnamon, and sweeten to your taste. Set the whole over a slow fire, and stir it till it becomes as thick as good melted butter, but it must not be boiled; then pour it into a dish for eating cold. _Gooseberry Fool._ Put the fruit into a stonejar and some good Lisbon sugar with them: set the jar on a stove, or in a saucepan of water over the fire; if the former, a large spoonful of water should be added to the fruit. When
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