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Italian Cream

From A manual of homoeopathic cookery (1846).

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A historical recipe

A manual of homoeopathic cookery, by Wife of a homoeopathic physician and Wife of an American homoeopathic physician (1846).

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 3 ingredients

  1. a quart of very thick cream
  2. an ounce of isinglass which has been
  3. an ounce of finely-sifted sugar

Method

  1. Whip a quart of very thick cream for twenty minutes, mix with it an ounce of isinglass which has been well dissolved in a little cream ;
  2. put in an ounce of finely-sifted sugar, colour the cream a light pink with red currant juice, put it into a mould, and then put it in a very cold place.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
  • Sieve
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Credit

From A manual of homoeopathic cookery (1846), printed page 123, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/64320960R.nlm.nih.gov

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.