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French Vanilla Cream

A historical recipe from Flint Hills Cook Book, by Christ Church Episcopal (Burlington, Iowa) (1895).

A historical recipe

Flint Hills Cook Book, by Christ Church Episcopal (Burlington, Iowa) (1895). Project Gutenberg eBook #58948.

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

Source and licence

From Flint Hills Cook Book, by Christ Church Episcopal (Burlington, Iowa) (1895). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #58948 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58948). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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France. Associated with France by a demonym leading its title: French (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. Break into a bowl the white of one egg, add to it an equal quantity of cold water and stir in XXX powdered sugar until it makes a cream stiff enough to mould.
  2. Flavor with vanilla and mould in any shape desired.
  3. This cream is the foundation of all French creams.
  4. Peppermint and wintergreen essence can be used instead of vanilla.