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Italian Cream

From Dainty dishes for Indian tables (1881).

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A historical recipe

Dainty dishes for Indian tables (1881).

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.

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. Dissolve the isinglass and sugar in the milk;
  2. boil slowly mould in cold water, put in the cream and place it on ice till firmly set.
  3. ‘Turn out carefully, and serve at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Dainty dishes for Indian tables (1881), printed page 328, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/daintydishesfor00unkngoog

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.