C-peaches, sliced 2/3 C-sugar
A historical recipe from A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina's best recipes, by Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron (1917).
A historical recipe
A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina's best recipes, by Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #42868.
From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.
Ingredients 1 ingredient
- 4 egg whites
Cook safely
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- Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- Add the sugar to the peaches and allow to stand in the ice box for ten minutes.
- Place peaches around the ice cream.
- White Cake (Twenty pieces) 1/2 C-butter 1-1/2 C-sugar 2-2/3 C-sifted flour 5 t-baking powder 1/8 t-salt 1 C-milk 4 egg whites, beaten stiffly 1 t-vanilla 1/2 t-lemon extract Cream the butter, add the sugar, and continue creaming for two minutes.
- Alternately add all the dry ingredients and the milk.
- Beat well.
- Cut and fold in the egg-whites.
- Add the flavoring.
- Bake in two buttered layer-cake pans, twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.
- Cover with "C" sugar icing.
- ="C" Sugar Icing (Twenty portions) 3 egg whites 3 C-"C" sugar 2/3 C-water 1 t-vanilla Cook the sugar and water together without stirring until the icing "clicks" in cold water.
- Remove from the fire and pour very slowly over the stiffly beaten egg-whites.
- Beat vigorously and continuously until the icing gets thick and creamy.
- Add the vanilla.
- Spread on the cake.
- Vanilla Ice Cream (Six portions) 1 qt.
- cream 3/4 C-sugar 1 T-vanilla 1/8 t-salt Mix cream, sugar, vanilla and salt.
- Place in a scalded and chilled freezer.
- Turn until the mixture stiffens.
- Pack for two hours to ripen.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Cake tin
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Chef's knife
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Cutting board
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Wooden spoon
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Spatula
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Sieve