Arrow-root Blancmange
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
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Ingredients 5 ingredients
Contains
MilkTree nuts
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Take a tea-cupful of Arrow-root to a pint of milk, boil the milk with twelve sweet, and six bitter Almonds, blanched and beaten ;
- sweeten with loaf sugar, and strain it, break the Arrow-root with a little of the milk as smooth as possible — pour the boiling milk upon it by degrees, stirring all the while, put it back into the pan, let it boil a few minutes still stirring — dip the shape in cold water before you put it in, and turn it out when cold.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Wooden spoon
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Spatula
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Sieve