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French Ice-Cream

From The cook book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896).

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A historical recipe

The cook book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf, by Oscar Tschirky (1896).

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 2 ingredients

  1. one quart of cream
  2. a pound of sugar

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.

Method

  1. Boil one quart of cream with a long vanilla bean, and then cool and strain.
  2. Beat the yolks of a dozen eggs, and mingle with three-fourths of a pound of sugar, mix the flavored cream with the eggs, stir over the fire, take it off as soon as it begins to thicken, and stir for five minutes, then cool and freeze.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The cook book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896), printed page 725, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookbookbyoscaro00tsch

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.