Fruit Cocktail
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 8 ingredients
- 2 well-beaten eggs
- Cream
- Sherry
- a pint of cold milk
- 2 ounces of powdered sugar
- 2 ounces of fresh butter
- 2 tablespoonfuls of arrowroot very smoothly
- Pudding
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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.
- 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
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- slowly to the boil.
- Mix 2 tablespoonfuls of arrowroot very smoothly with half a pint of cold milk.
- Pour the boiling milk upon this, and stir briskly for a minute or two.
- Add 2 ounces of fresh butter and 2 well-beaten eggs, and stir the mixture again until it is cool.
- Put it into an oiled mould, and set it upon ice, if possible ;
- if not, lay it in a cool place until it is wanted.
- Turn it out before serving, and send hot plates to table with it, and the following sauce in a tureen: Beat 2 ounces of fresh butter to a cream.
- Add 2 ounces of powdered sugar and 2 glassfuls of sherry, and mix thoroughly.
- Put the mixture into a small saucepan, and stir gently until it boils.
- Serve immediately.
- Time, six or eight hours to set the pudding, if it is not put upon ice.
Plating
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Saucepan
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