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Italian Cream

A historical recipe from Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants, by Jacqueline Harrison Smith (1906).

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A historical recipe

Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants, by Jacqueline Harrison Smith (1906). Project Gutenberg eBook #77552.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 8 tablespoons of sugar
  2. 1 teacup full

Method

  1. 1 qt.
  2. of cream sweetened to your taste, (about 8 tablespoons of sugar to 1 qt.
  3. of cream).
  4. Then boil 4 strips of gelatine in 2 common teacups of water with a vanilla bean.
  5. Let it boil till reduced to 1 teacup full, strain it, and when lukewarm, stir it quickly into the cream and pour it into the mould.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants, by Jacqueline Harrison Smith (1906). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #77552 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77552). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.