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Dutch Flummery

A historical recipe from New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families, by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1807).

A historical recipe

New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families, by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1807). Project Gutenberg eBook #69519.

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

Also printed in: The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822).

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From New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families, by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1807). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #69519 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69519). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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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.

Netherlands. Associated with Netherlands by a demonym leading its title: Dutch (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Boil two ounces of isinglass in three half pints of water very gently half an hour: add a pint of white wine, the juice of three and the thin rind of one lemon, and rub a few lumps of sugar on another lemon to obtain the essence;
  2. and with them add as much more sugar as shall make it sweet enough.
  3. Having beaten the yelks of seven eggs, give them and the above, when mixed, one scald;
  4. stir all the time, and pour it into a bason.
  5. Stir it till half cold, then let it settle, and put it into a melon shape.