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Blanc Mange

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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Salt
  3. 1 pint milk

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

  1. 1 pint milk.
  2. 2 tbsps.
  3. sugar.
  4. 4 (l.) tbsps.
  5. cornstarch.
  6. 1/2 ssp.
  7. salt.
  8. Put the milk on to boil.
  9. Moisten the cornstarch with a little cold milk, then add it to the boiling milk, and stir until it thickens;
  10. let it cook slowly for 5 minutes;
  11. add the sugar and salt, take from the fire, pour into a mould and set away to harden.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Public School Domestic Science, by Adelaide Hoodless (1898). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #18097 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18097). 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.