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Italian Cream

A historical recipe from Valuable cooking receipts, by Murrey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) (1880).

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A historical recipe

Valuable cooking receipts, by Murrey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) (1880). Project Gutenberg eBook #77612.

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 5 ingredients

  1. one ounce of soaked isinglass
  2. six ounces of loaf-sugar
  3. a stick of vanilla
  4. one pint of milk
  5. a pint of thick cream

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. Put one ounce of soaked isinglass, six ounces of loaf-sugar, half a stick of vanilla, and one pint of milk into a saucepan;
  2. boil slowly, and stir all the time until the isinglass is dissolved;
  3. strain the mixture, and when a little cool mix it with a pint of thick cream.
  4. Beat thoroughly until it thickens.
  5. Pour into a large or individual moulds, and put in ice-box until wanted.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Valuable cooking receipts, by Murrey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) (1880). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #77612 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77612). 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.