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Nectar

From Dainties for home parties (1915).

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A historical recipe

Dainties for home parties, by Florence Williams (1915).

United States

Known as an American 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.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one cup of cream
  2. three-quarters cup of sugar

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. Follow recipe for black coffee.
  2. When done add one cup of cream and three-quarters cup of sugar, and boil three minutes longer.
  3. Serve with whipped cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
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Credit

From Dainties for home parties (1915), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/daintiesforhomep00will

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.