Italian Cream
A historical recipe from The Book of Household Management, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) (1861).
A historical recipe
The Book of Household Management, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) (1861). Project Gutenberg eBook #10136.
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Source and licence
From The Book of Household Management, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) (1861). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #10136 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10136). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- 4 pint of cream
- 1 oz. of isinglass
- 1 lemon
- 4 eggs
Method
- 1437.
- INGREDIENTS.--1 pint of milk, 4 pint of cream, sugar to taste, 1 oz.
- of isinglass, 1 lemon, the yolks of 4 eggs.
- Mode.--Put the cream and milk into a saucepan, with sugar to sweeten, and the lemon-rind.
- Boil until the milk is well flavoured then strain it into a basin, and add the beaten yolks of eggs.
- Put this mixture into a jug;
- place the jug in a saucepan of boiling water over the fire, and stir the contents until they thicken, but do not allow them to boil.
- Take the cream off the fire, stir in the lemon-juice and isinglass, which should be melted, and whip well;
- fill a mould, place it in ice if at hand, and, when set, turn it out on a dish, and garnish as taste may dictate.
- The mixture may be whipped and drained, and then put into small glasses, when this mode of serving is preferred.
- Time.--From 5 to 8 minutes to stir the mixture in the jug.
- Average cost, with the best isinglass, 2s.
- 6d.
- Sufficient to fill 1-1/2-pint mould.
- Seasonable at any time.