Italian Cream
Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 9 ingredients
- a pint of boiling water
- two pints of cream
- six ounces of scraped ' chocolate
- Lemons
- an ounce of dissolved isinglass
- four ounces of white sugar
- a glass dish
- two ounces of isinglass
- two glasses of white wine
Possible health benefits
General information, not medical advice.
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Lemon
High in vitamin C · 53 mg per 100 g, 66% of the reference intake per 100 g
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
11 more authorised claims
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
- Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
- Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
- Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
- Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
- Vitamin C increases iron absorption.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet
Source of protein · 1.1 g per 100 g, 15% of the energy from protein
- Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
- Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
- Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
Nutrients per 100 g of “Lemons, raw, without peel”, USDA FoodData Central.
Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).
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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- Put two pints of cream into two bowls.
- With one bowl inix six.
- ounces of powdered loai^ sugar, tbe juice of two large lemons, and two glasses of white wine.
- Then add the other pint of cream, and stir thb whole yery hard.
- Boil two ounces of isinglass with four small teacups full of water, titl it is reduced to one half.
- Then sUr the isinglass lukewarm into the other iogrediento, and put them into a glass dish to congeal.
- CHOCOLATE CREAM.-^Melt six ounces of scraped ' chocolate and four ounces of white sugar in half a pint of boiling water.
- Stir in an ounce of dissolved isinglass.
- When the whole has boiled, pour it ioto a mould.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Mixing bowl
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Wooden spoon