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Italian Cream

A historical recipe from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches, by Eliza Leslie (1840).

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A historical recipe

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches, by Eliza Leslie (1840). Project Gutenberg eBook #9624.

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

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two pints of cream
  2. six ounces of powdered loaf-sugar
  3. two glasses of white wine
  4. a glass dish

Method

  1. Put two pints of cream into two bowls.
  2. With one bowl mix six ounces of powdered loaf-sugar, the juice of two large lemons, and two glasses of white wine.
  3. Then add the other pint of cream, and stir the whole very hard.
  4. Boil two ounces, of isinglass with, four small tea-cups full of water, till it is reduced to one half.
  5. Then stir the isinglass lukewarm, into the other ingredients, and put them into a glass dish to congeal.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches, by Eliza Leslie (1840). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #9624 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9624). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.