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Another Excellent Receipt for a Fruit Charlotte

A historical recipe from The Jewish Manual Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relat, by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady (1846).

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A historical recipe

The Jewish Manual Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette, by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady (1846). Project Gutenberg eBook #12327.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of white sugar
  2. a pint of whipped cream

Method

  1. Line a jelly mould with fine picked strawberries, which must first be just dipped into some liquid jelly, to make them adhere closely, then fill the mould with some strawberry cream, prepared as follows: take a pottle of scarlet strawberries, mix them with half a pound of white sugar, rub this through a sieve, and add to it a pint of whipped cream, and one ounce and a half of dissolved isinglass;
  2. pour it into the mould, which must be immersed in ice until ready to serve, and then carefully turned out on the dish, and garnished according to fancy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Jewish Manual Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relat, by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady (1846). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12327 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12327). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.