The Boston cooking-school cook book

macaroons, finely crushed 2 cups thin cream ½ cup sugar ⅓ cup sherry 1 pint heavy cream Soak macaroons in thin cream one hour, add sugar, wine, and freeze to a mush; then add heavy cream beaten stiff. Mould, pack in salt and ice, and let stand two hours. Trim lady fingers, arrange on plate in form of box. Keep in place with ribbon one-half inch wide, and fasten at one corner by tying ribbon in a bow. Garnish opposite corner with flowers of same color as ribbon. Remove ice cream from brick, cut a slice three-fourths inch thick, and place it in box. Frozen Soufflé Glacé 4 eggs Grated rind 1 lemon ⅔ cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice ½ cup Madeira wine Few grains salt ⅔ cup heavy cream Beat yolks of eggs slightly; add lemon juice, grated rind, wine, sugar, and salt; cook until mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Add whites of eggs beaten stiff, and when well mixed, set in a pan of ice-water to cool, stirring occasionally. Beat cream until stiff, and add. Fill small paper cases with mixture, cover with macaroon dust, and set in a tin mould with tight-fitting cover. Pack mould in salt and ice, and let stand two hours. Frozen Plum Pudding 2 cups milk 1 cup sugar Yolks 6 eggs ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ cup sherry 2½ cups cream ¾ cup candied fruit ½ cup almonds, blanched and chopped ⅓ cup Sultana raisins ½ cup pounded macaroons Make custard of milk, one-half the sugar, egg yolks, and salt. Caramelize the remaining sugar and add. Strain, cool, add remaining ingredients, freeze, and mould. If a baked ice cream is desired, use whites of eggs for meringue, Baked Alaska (see p. 448). Frozen Charlotte Glacé Mould ice cream in brick form or one-half pound baking-powder boxes. Remove from mould or moulds, and surround with lady fingers, trimmed to come to top of cream. Cover top with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored, and pipe cream between lady fingers. Baking-powder boxes are used when individual service is desired, the cream being cut in halves crosswise.