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French Flummery

From The family receipt-book (1817).

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A historical recipe

The family receipt-book (1817).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

  1. a pint of cream

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.
  • 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

  1. Beat half an ounce of isinglass as fine as possible;
  2. boil it gently, for about a quarter of an hour, in a pint of cream, carefully stirring it all the time;
  3. and then, taking it off the fire, sweeten it with some fine pow dered loaf sugar, add a very little rose and orange flower water, strain the whole through a sieve, stir it till half cold, and put it into a bason or mould.
  4. Vv hen quite cold, turn it into a dish, and garnish with currant jelly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The family receipt-book (1817), printed page 59, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b2200712x

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.