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Fromage a la Creme

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France

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a quart of milk
  2. Must
  3. a spoonful of water
  4. Lump of sugar
  5. 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.

Method

  1. Take a quart of milk, a pint of cream, and a lump of sugar;
  2. boil together till it is reduced a third ;
  3. then let it cool.
  4. When lukewarm, put in a little rennet, which you must dilute with a spoonful of water.
  5. Mix it well in the cream, then strain it through a tamis.
  6. Put your cream into a mould, which you must cover closely : put hot cinders on the cover : let your cream set ;
  7. then let it get cold in the air.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Manual of French cookery (1853), printed page 235, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/manualoffrenchco00onew

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.