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A historical recipe from Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893).

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A historical recipe

Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893). Project Gutenberg eBook #6703.

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. One quart rich cream
  2. one pint sherry wine
  3. one quart pulverized sugar
  4. a tablespoon remove

Method

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  3. One quart rich cream, juice and peel three lemons, one pint sherry wine, one quart pulverized sugar.
  4. Grate the lemon peels and express the juice, add sugar and pour over these the wine;
  5. stir until sugar is thoroughly moistened and then slowly add the cream.
  6. When mixed take whip-dash and with a tablespoon remove the floating bubbles which rise to the surface.
  7. Drop the contents of your spoon into lemonade or champagne glasses, continuing thin process until all the cream is whipped.
  8. If the mixture becomes too thick and creamy to make bubbles, dilute it with sweet milk.
  9. This quantity will make thirty or forty glasses or fill a four-quart glass howl.
  10. Great care must be taken not to dip the spoon too deeply into the mixture, the froth is what is desired.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman (1893). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6703 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6703). 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.