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Currant, Raspberry, or Strawberry Whisk

A historical recipe from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1846).

A historical recipe

Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1846). Project Gutenberg eBook #54965.

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

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From Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy, by Catharine Esther Beecher (1846). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #54965 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54965). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Put three gills of the juice of the fruit to ten ounces of crushed sugar, add the juice of a lemon, and a pint and a half of cream.
  2. Whisk it till quite thick, and serve it in jelly glasses, or a glass dish.
  3. Lemonade Ice, and other Ices.
  4. To a quart of lemonade, add the whites of six eggs, cut to a froth, and freeze it.
  5. The juices of any fruit, sweetened and watered, may be prepared in the same way, and are very fine.