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French Flummery

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France

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a spoonful of rose-water
  2. 2 oz. of isinglass shavings
  3. Sugar
  4. Cream
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • 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.
  • 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.

Method

  1. Boil slowly 2 oz.
  2. of isinglass shavings in a quart of cream 15 minutes.
  3. Stir all the time, and sweeten it with loaf-sugar, not pounded, lest any dust should be in it ;
  4. add a spoonful of rose-water and the same of orange-flower water.
  5. Strain it into a basin or form, and serve with baked pears romid it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve