Ebook - Recipes Tried And True (1894 Cookbook).txt

KISSES. FLORENCE ECKHART.

White of one egg (beaten stiff), one teaspoonful of baking powder to

the white of an egg; thicken with powdered sugar to drop from the

spoon; add one small cup of nuts. Flavor to taste. Drop on buttered

pans, and bake until light brown on top.

DELICACIES.

Custards for supper, and an endless host of other such lady-like

luxuries."

-SHELLEY.

APPLE FLOAT. MRS. M. E. WRIGHT.

To one quart apples, stewed and well mashed, put whites of three eggs

well beaten), and four heaping tablespoons of sugar; beat together

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for fifteen minutes. Serve with cream.

FLOAT. FLORENCE TURNEY.

One pint milk, one tablespoon corn starch, yolks of two eggs. Beat

yolks, and add one tablespoon cream, one cup coffee A sugar. Flavor

when cool.

FLOAT. FLORENCE TURNEY.

Put two quarts of milk into a tin bucket, and place in a kettle of

boiling water. While waiting for milk to boil, take the yolks of four

eggs, beat, and add one tablespoonful of cream or milk, one cup of

coffee A sugar, two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour; beat this to a

creamy mixture. When the milk boils, take some of it, stir into the

mixture, and then slowly pour this mixture into the rest of the

boiling milk, stirring all the time. Put on the lid of the bucket;

let boil for a few minutes. Flavor with vanilla. When cool, put in

dish. Take the whites of four eggs; beat stiff; add granulated sugar;

beat quite a while. Flavor with vanilla. Spread this over the top of

the float, and on top of this put bits of jelly.

CHARLOTTE RUSSE.

A very nice recipe for charlotte russe made with gelatine is as

follows: Use one pint of cream whipped till light, one ounce of

gelatine dissolved in one gill of hot milk, the well beaten whites of

two eggs, one small teacupful of powdered sugar, and any flavoring

preferred. Mix the eggs, sugar and cream together, and then beat in

the dissolved gelatine. The milk should be quite cold before it is

added to the other ingredients. Line a dish with slices of sponge

cake, or with lady fingers, and fill with cream. Set it on ice to

cool.

LEMON SPONGE OR SNOW PUDDING. OZELLA SEFFNER.

One-half box gelatine, juice of three lemons, one pint of cold water,

one-half pint of hot water, two teacups of sugar, whites of three

eggs. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one pint of cold water ten

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