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Italian Cream

From The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year (1899).

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A historical recipe

The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year, by Mary Shelley Pechin (1899).

Italy

Known as an Italian 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-half pint of sweet cream
  2. one-half stick of vanilla

Method

  1. One-half pint of sweet cream, six sheets of white sheet gelatine, one-half stick of vanilla, the yolks of four or five eggs.
  2. The above is to be well cooked over a slow lire, then stir in one-fourth pound of Sultana raisins ;
  3. when cold, stir in one-eighth pint of whipped cream just before serving;
  4. and place on the ice in a mold for a few minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year (1899), printed page 249, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/365cookbookforus00pech

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.