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Currant Salad

From Puddings and pastry à la mode (1889).

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From Puddings and pastry à la mode (1889), printed page 21, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b28062280

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pint of red currants
  2. a pint of white currants
  3. a pint of good cream
  4. a tablespoonful of brandy

Method

  1. Pick over a pint of red currants and place them in the centre of a compote dish ;
  2. then pick over a pint of white currants and arrange them in a border round the red ones ;
  3. outside of these arrange another border of black currants.
  4. Take a pint of good cream, sweeten, and add gradually a tablespoonful of brandy and one of curagoa.
  5. Pour the cream over the salad, and drop fresh raspberries all over each.

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