Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings
Together with
Refreshments for all Social Affairs
by Mrs. S. T. Rorer
Author of Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book, Philadelphia Cook Book, Canning and
Preserving, and other Valuable Works on Cookery
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAMS
NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAMS
ICE CREAMS FROM CONDENSED MILK
FROZEN PUDDINGS AND DESSERTS
WATER ICES AND SHERBETS OR SORBETS
FROZEN FRUITS
FRAPPE
PARFAIT
MOUSSE
SAUCES FOR ICE CREAMS
REFRESHMENTS FOR AFFAIRS
Soups
Sweetbreads
Shell Fish Dishes
Poultry and Game Dishes
Cold Dishes
Salads
Sandwiches
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHURCH SUPPERS
FOREWORD
CONTAINING GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR ALL RECIPES
In this book, Philadelphia Ice Creams, comprising the first group, are
very palatable, but expensive. In many parts of the country it is quite
difficult to get good cream. For that reason, I have given a group of
creams, using part milk and part cream, but it must be remembered that
it takes smart "juggling" to make ice cream from milk. By far better use
condensed milk, with enough water or milk to rinse out the cans.
Ordinary fruit creams may be made with condensed milk at a cost of about
fifteen cents a quart, which, of course, is cheaper than ordinary milk and
cream.
In places where neither cream nor condensed milk can be purchased, a fair
ice cream is made by adding two tablespoonfuls of olive oil to each quart
of milk. The cream for Philadelphia Ice Cream should be rather rich, but
not double cream.
If pure raw cream is stirred rapidly, it swells and becomes frothy, like
the beaten whites of eggs, and is "whipped cream." To prevent this in
making Philadelphia Ice Cream, one-half the cream is scalded, and when it
is _very_ cold, the remaining half of raw cream is added. This gives the
smooth, light and rich consistency which makes these creams so different
from others.
USE OF FRUITS
Use fresh fruits in the summer and the best canned unsweetened fruits in
the winter. If sweetened fruits must be used, cut down the given quantity
of sugar. Where acid fruits are used, they should be added to the cream
after it is partly frozen.
TIME FOR FREEZING
The time for freezing varies according to the quality of cream or milk or
water; water ices require a longer time than ice creams. It is not well to
freeze the mixtures too rapidly; they are apt to be coarse, not smooth, and
if they are churned before the mixture is icy cold they will be greasy or
"buttery."
The average time for freezing two quarts of cream should be ten minutes; it
takes but a minute or two longer for larger quantities.
DIRECTIONS FOR FREEZING
Pound the ice in a large bag with a mallet, or use an ordinary ice shaver.
The finer the ice, the less time it takes to freeze the cream. A four quart
freezer will require ten pounds of ice, and a quart and a pint of coarse
rock salt. You may pack the freezer with a layer of ice three inches thick,
then a layer of salt one inch thick, or mix the ice and salt in the tub and
shovel it around the freezer. Before beginning to pack the freezer, turn
the crank to see that all the machinery is in working order. Then open the
can and turn in the mixture that is to be frozen. Turn the crank slowly and
steadily until the mixture begins to freeze, then more rapidly until it is
completely frozen. If the freezer is properly packed, it will take fifteen
minutes to freeze the mixture. Philadelphia Ice Creams are not good if
frozen too quickly.
TO REPACK
After the cream is frozen, wipe off the lid of the can and remove the
crank; take off the lid, being very careful not to allow any salt to fall
into the can. Remove the dasher and scrape it off. Take a large knife or
steel spatula, scrape the cream from the sides of the can, work and pack
it down until it is perfectly smooth. Put the lid back on the can, and put
a cork in the hole from which the dasher was taken. Draw off the water,
repack, and cover the whole with a piece of brown paper; throw over a heavy
bag or a bit of burlap, and stand aside for one or two hours to ripen.
TO MOLD ICE CREAMS, ICES OR PUDDINGS
If you wish to pack ice cream and serve it in forms or shapes, it must be
molded after the freezing. The handiest of all of these molds is either the
brick or the melon mold.
After the cream is frozen rather stiff, prepare a tub or bucket of coarsely
chopped ice, with one-half less salt than you use for freezing. To each ten
pounds of ice allow one quart of rock salt. Sprinkle a little rock salt in
the bottom of your bucket or tub, then put over a layer of cracked ice,
another layer of salt and cracked ice, and on this stand your mold, which
is not filled, but is covered with a lid, and pack it all around, leaving
the top, of course, to pack later on. Take your freezer near this tub.
Remove the lid from the mold, and pack in the cream, smoothing it down
until you have filled it to overflowing. Smooth the top with a spatula or
limber knife, put over a sheet of waxed paper and adjust the lid. Have a
strip of muslin or cheese cloth dipped in hot paraffin or suet and quickly
bind the seam of the lid. This will remove all danger of salt water
entering the pudding. Now cover the mold thoroughly with ice and salt.
Make sure that your packing tub or bucket has a hole below the top of the
mold, so that the salt water will be drained off.
If you are packing in small molds, each mold, as fast as it is closed,
should be wrapped in wax paper and put down into the salt and ice. These
must be filled quickly and packed.
Molds should stand two hours, and may stand longer.
TO REMOVE ICE CREAMS, ICES AND PUDDINGS FROM MOLDS
Ice cream may be molded in the freezer; you will then have a perfectly
round smooth mold, which serves very well for puddings that are to be
garnished, and saves a great deal of trouble and extra expense for salt and
ice.
As cold water is warmer than the ordinary freezing mixture, after you lift
the can or mold, wipe off the salt, hold it for a minute under the cold
water spigot, then quickly wipe the top and bottom and remove the lid.
Loosen the pudding with a limber knife, hold the mold a little slanting,
give it a shake, and nine times out of ten it will come out quickly, having
the perfect shape of the can or mold. If the cream still sticks and refuses
to come out, wipe the mold with a towel wrung from warm water. Hot water
spoils the gloss of puddings, and unless you know exactly how to use it,
the cream is too much melted to garnish.
All frozen puddings, water ices, sherbets and sorbets are frozen and molded
according to these directions.
The quantities given in these recipes are arranged in equal amounts, so
that for a smaller number of persons they can be easily divided.
QUANTITIES FOR SERVING
Each quart of ice cream will serve, in dessert plates, four persons. In
stem ice cream dishes, silver or glass, it will serve six persons. A quart
of ice or sherbet will fill ten small sherbet stem glasses, to serve with
the meat course at dinner. This quantity will serve in lemonade glasses
eight persons.
PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAMS
BURNT ALMOND ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
4 ounces of sweet almonds
1 tablespoonful of caramel
1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract
4 tablespoonfuls of sherry
Shell, blanch and roast the almonds until they are a golden brown, then
grate them. Put half the cream and all the sugar over the fire in a double
boiler. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, take it from the fire, add the
caramel and the almonds, and, when cold, add the remaining pint of cream,
the vanilla and the sherry. Freeze as directed on page 7.
This quantity will serve eight persons.
APRICOT ICE CREAM
6 ounces of sugar
1 quart of cream
1 can of apricots or
1 quart of fresh apricots
If fresh apricots are used, take an extra quarter of a pound of sugar. Put
half the cream and all the sugar over the fire in a double boiler and stir
until the sugar is dissolved; take from the fire and, when cold, add the
remaining cream. Turn the mixture into the freezer, and, when frozen fairly
stiff, add the apricots after having been pressed through a colander.
Return the lid, adjust the crank, and turn it slowly for five minutes, then
remove the dasher and repack.
This quantity should serve ten persons.
BANANA ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
6 large bananas
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put half the cream and all the sugar over the fire and stir until the
sugar is dissolved; take from the fire, and, when perfectly cold, add the
remaining half of the cream. Freeze the mixture, and add the bananas mashed
or pressed through a colander. Put on the lid, adjust the crank, and turn
until the mixture is frozen rather hard.
This quantity will serve ten persons.
BISCUIT ICE CREAM
6 wine biscuits
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Grate and sift the biscuits. Scald half the cream and the sugar; when cold,
add the remaining cream and the vanilla, and freeze. When frozen, remove
the dasher, stir in the powdered biscuits, and repack to ripen.
This quantity will serve six persons.
APPLE ICE CREAM
4 large tart apples
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 tablespoonful of lemon juice
Put half the cream and all the sugar over the fire and stir until the sugar
is dissolved. When the mixture is perfectly cold, freeze it and add the
lemon juice and the apples, pared and grated. Finish the freezing, and
repack to ripen.
The apples must be pared at the last minute and grated into the cream. If
they are grated on a dish and allowed to remain in the air they will turn
very dark and spoil the color of the cream.
BROWN BREAD ICE CREAM
3 half inch slices of Boston Brown Bread
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla or
1/4 of a vanilla bean or a teaspoonful of vanilla extract
Dry and toast the bread in the oven, grate or pound it, and put it through
an ordinary sieve. Heat half the cream and all the sugar; take from the
fire, add vanilla, and, when cold, add the remaining cream, and freeze.
When frozen, remove the dasher, stir in the brown bread, repack and stand
aside to ripen.
This quantity will serve six persons.
CARAMEL ICE CREAM, No. 1
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put four tablespoonfuls of the sugar in an iron frying pan over a strong
fire, shake until the sugar melts, turns brown, smokes and burns; add
quickly a half cupful of water; let it boil a minute, take from the fire,
and put it, with all the sugar and half the cream, in a double boiler over
the fire. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, take from the fire, and, when
cold, add the remaining cream and vanilla, and freeze.
This quantity will serve six persons.
CARAMEL ICE CREAM, No. 2
1 quart of cream
1 pint of milk
1/2 cupful of brown sugar
1/2 pound of granulated sugar
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
Put the brown sugar in a frying pan over the fire, shake it until it melts,
burns and smokes. Take it from the fire and add two tablespoonfuls of
water; heat until the sugar is again melted, put it in a double boiler with
the milk and all the sugar, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and stand
aside to cool. When cold, add half the cream and the vanilla, and freeze.
When frozen sufficiently stiff to remove the dasher, stir in the remaining
pint of cream whipped to a stiff froth, repack and stand aside for three
hours.
This quantity will serve ten persons.
BISQUE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/4 pound of almond macaroons
4 kisses
1/2 pound of sugar
1 slice of stale sponge cake or
2 stale lady fingers
1 teaspoonful of caramel
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
If you use it, 4 tablespoonfuls of sherry
Pound the macaroons, kisses, lady fingers or sponge cake, and put them
through a colander. Put half the cream and all the sugar over the fire in
a double boiler; when the sugar is dissolved, stand the mixture aside to
cool; when cold, add the remaining cream, the caramel, sherry and vanilla.
Turn the mixture into the freezer, and, when frozen, add the pounded cakes;
stir the mixture until it is perfectly smooth and well mixed, and repack.
Bisque ice cream is better for a three hour stand.
This quantity will serve six persons.
CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1 pint of milk
1/2 pound of sugar
4 ounces of chocolate
1 teaspoonful of vanilla or 1/4 of a vanilla bean
1/4 of a teaspoonful of cinnamon
Grate the chocolate, put it in a double boiler with the milk; stir until
hot, and add the sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and one pint of the cream. When
cold, freeze; when frozen, remove the dasher and stir in the remaining pint
of the cream whipped to a stiff froth.
This will serve ten persons.
COFFEE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of pulverized sugar
4 ounces of so-called Mocha coffee
Grind the Mocha rather coarse, put it in the double boiler with one half
the cream, and steep over the fire for at least ten minutes. Strain through
a fine muslin or flannel bag, pressing it hard to get out all the strength
of the coffee. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved; when cold, add the
remaining pint of cream and freeze.
This will serve six persons.
CURACAO ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1 wineglassful of curacao
1/2 pound of sugar
2 tablespoonfuls of orange blossoms water
Juice of two oranges
Put the sugar and half the cream over the fire in a double boiler. When the
sugar is dissolved, take it from the fire, and, when cold, add the curacao,
orange juice and orange blossoms water; add the remaining cream, and
freeze.
This will serve six persons.
GINGER ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/4 pound of preserved ginger
1/2 pound of sugar
1 tablespoonful of lemon juice
Put the ginger through an ordinary meat chopper. Heat the sugar, ginger and
half the cream in a double boiler; when the sugar is dissolved, take it
from the fire, and, when cold, add the lemon juice and remaining cream, and
freeze.
MARASCHINO ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 orange
2 wineglassfuls of maraschino
2 drops of Angostura Bitters, or
1/2 teaspoonful of extract of wild cherry
Put the sugar and half the cream in a double boiler, and stir until the
sugar is dissolved. When cold, add the remaining cream, the juice of the
orange, the bitters or wild cherry, and the maraschino, and freeze.
Serve in parfait glasses to six persons.
LEMON ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
9 ounces of powdered sugar
4 tablespoonfuls of lemon juice
Juice of one orange
Grated yellow rind of 3 lemons
Mix the sugar, the grated rind and juice of the lemons, and the orange
juice together. Put half the cream in a double boiler over the fire; when
scalding hot, stand it aside until perfectly cold; add the remaining half
of the cream and freeze it rather hard. Remove the crank and the lid, add
the sugar mixture, replace the lid and crank, and turn rapidly for five
minutes; repack to ripen.
This will serve six people.
ORANGE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
10 ounces of sugar
Juice of 6 large oranges
Grated rind of one orange
Put the sugar, grated yellow rind of the orange and half the cream in a
double boiler over the fire; when the sugar is dissolved, take from the
fire, and, when _very cold_, add the remaining cream, and freeze. When
frozen rather hard, add the orange juice, refreeze, and pack to ripen.
PINEAPPLE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
12 ounces of sugar
1 large ripe pineapple or
1 pint can of grated pineapple
Juice of one lemon
Put half the cream and half the sugar in a double boiler over the fire;
when the sugar is dissolved, stand it aside until cold. Pare and grate the
pineapple, add the remaining half of the sugar and stand it aside. When the
cream is cold, add the remaining cream, and partly freeze. Then add the
lemon juice to the pineapple and add it to the frozen cream; turn the
freezer five minutes longer, and repack.
This will serve eight or ten persons.
GREEN GAGE ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
4 ounces of sugar
1 pint of preserved green gages, free from syrup
Press the green gages through a sieve. Add the sugar to half the cream,
stir it in a double boiler until the sugar is dissolved; when cold, add the
remaining cream. When this is partly frozen, stir in the green gage pulp,
and finish the freezing as directed on page 7.
If the green gages are colorless, add three or four drops of apple green
coloring to the cream before freezing.
RASPBERRY ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1 quart of raspberries
12 ounces of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Mash the raspberries; add half the sugar and the lemon juice. Put the
remaining sugar and half the cream in a double boiler; stir until the sugar
is dissolved, and stand aside to cool; when cold, add the remaining cream,
turn the mixture into the freezer, and stir until partly frozen. Remove the
lid and add the mashed raspberries, and stir again for five or ten minutes
until the mixture is sufficiently hard to repack.
This will serve eight or ten persons.
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM
Make precisely the same as raspberry ice cream, substituting one quart of
strawberries for the raspberries.
PISTACHIO ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1/2 pound of shelled pistachio nuts
1 teaspoonful of almond extract
10 drops of green coloring
Blanch and pound or grate the nuts. Put half the cream and all the sugar in
a double boiler; stir until the sugar is dissolved and stand aside to cool;
when cold, add the nuts, the flavoring and the remaining cream, mix, add
the coloring, and turn into the freezer to freeze.
If green coloring matter is not at hand, a little spinach or parsley may be
chopped and rubbed with a small quantity of alcohol.
This quantity will serve six persons,
VANILLA ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 vanilla bean or two teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract
Put the sugar and half the cream in a double boiler over the fire. Split
the vanilla bean, scrape out the seeds and add them to the hot cream, and
add the bean broken into pieces. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, and
strain through a colander. When this is cold, add the remaining cream and
freeze. This should be repacked and given two hours to ripen. Four would be
better.
This will serve six persons.
WALNUT ICE CREAM
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
1 teaspoonful of caramel
1/2 pint of black walnut meats
Put the sugar and half the cream over the fire in a double boiler; when the
sugar is dissolved, stand it aside to cool. When cold, add the remaining
cream, the walnuts, chopped, and the flavoring, and freeze.
This will serve six persons.
NEAPOLITAN CREAMS
In this group we have a set of frozen desserts called by many "ice creams,"
but which are really frozen custards, flavored. In localities where cream
is not accessible, the Neapolitan Creams are far better than milk thickened
with cornstarch or gelatin.
CHOCOLATE
1 pint of cream
1 pint of milk
1/2 pound of sugar
4 eggs
2 ounces of chocolate
1 small piece of stick cinnamon
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put the milk and cinnamon over the fire in a double boiler. Beat the yolks
of the eggs and sugar until very light, add the well-beaten whites, and
stir this into the hot milk. As soon as the mixture begins to thicken, take
it from the fire, add the grated chocolate, and, when cold, add the cream
and the vanilla. Freeze and pack as directed on page 7.
This is sufficient to serve ten persons.
CARAMEL
1 pint of cream
1 pint of milk
1/2 pound of sugar
4 eggs
3 tablespoonfuls of caramel
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Beat the yolks of the eggs until creamy and add the sugar; beat until
light, and then add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Put the milk over
the fire in a double boiler; when hot, add the eggs, and stir and cook
until the mixture begins to thicken. Take from the fire, strain through a
fine sieve, add the vanilla and caramel, and, when cold, add the cream, and
freeze.
This will serve ten persons.
COFFEE
1 pint of strong black coffee
1 pint of cream
2 eggs
1/2 pound of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Beat the sugar and the yolks of the eggs until light, add the well-beaten
whites, and pour into them the coffee, boiling hot. Stir over the fire for
a minute, take from the fire, add the vanilla, and, when cold, add the
cream, and freeze.
This will serve eight persons.
VANILLA
1 pint of cream
1 pint of milk
1/2 pound of sugar
3 eggs
1/4 vanilla bean or a teaspoonful of good extract
Put the milk over the fire in a double boiler, and add the vanilla bean,
split. Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar until light, add the whites
beaten to a stiff froth, and stir into them the hot milk. Return the
mixture to the double boiler and cook until it begins to thicken, or will
coat a knife blade dipped into it. Take from the fire, strain through a
colander, and, when cold, add the cream, and freeze. Repack and stand to
ripen for three hours or longer.
This will serve eight persons.
WALNUT
1 pint of cream
1 pint of milk
2 eggs
1/2 pint of chopped black walnuts
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
1 teaspoonful of caramel
Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar until light; add the well-beaten
whites, and then the milk, scalding hot. Stir over the fire in a double
boiler until the mixture begins to thicken; take from the fire and add the
vanilla and caramel. When cold, add the walnuts and cream, and freeze.
This will serve eight persons.
NEAPOLITAN BLOCKS
These are made by putting layers of various kinds and colors of ice creams
into a brick mold. Pack and freeze. At serving time, cut into slices
crosswise of the brick, and serve each slice on a paper mat.
ICE CREAMS FROM CONDENSED MILK
These creams are not so good as those made from raw cream, but with care
and good flavoring are quite as good as the ordinary Neapolitan Creams.
There is one advantage - condensed milk is not so liable to curdle when
mixed with fresh fruits. These recipes will answer also for what is sold
under the name of "Evaporated Cream." Use unsweetened milk, or allow for
the sugar in the sweetened varieties.
BANANA
6 large bananas
1/4 pound of sugar
1 half pint can of condensed milk
1/2 cupful of water
Juice of one lemon
Press the bananas through a sieve, and add the lemon juice and sugar. Stand
aside a half hour, add milk and water, stir until the sugar is dissolved,
and freeze as directed on page 7.
This will serve six persons.
CARAMEL
1/4 cupful of brown sugar
1/2 cupful of granulated sugar
1 cupful of water
2 half pint cans of condensed milk
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put the brown sugar in an iron pan, melt and brown it. When it begins to
smoke, add two tablespoonfuls of hot water. Stir until liquid. Pour out
the milk, rinse the cans with the water, add the caramel, vanilla and
granulated sugar. When the sugar is dissolved, freeze as directed on page
7.
This will serve six persons.
COCOANUT
2 large cocoanuts
1 pint of boiling water
1/2 pint can of sweetened condensed milk
Grate the cocoanuts and pour over them the boiling water. Stir until it is
cool, and press in a sieve. Put the fibre in a cheese cloth and wring it
dry; add this to the water that was strained through the sieve. When cold,
add condensed milk, and freeze as directed on page 7.
This will serve eight persons.
CHOCOLATE, No. 1
2 ounces of Baker's chocolate
1/2 pint of water
1 saltspoonful of ground cinnamon
2 half pint cans of condensed milk
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
1/4 pound of sugar
Put the water, chocolate, sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan; stir until
boiling. Take from the fire, add the vanilla and the condensed milk. When
cold, freeze as directed on page 7.
This will serve six persons.
CHOCOLATE, No. 2
4 ounces of Baker's chocolate
1/2 pint of water
1/2 pound of sugar
2 half pint cans of condensed milk
1 pint of milk
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
1 saltspoonful of ground cinnamon
Put the chocolate, sugar, water and cinnamon in a saucepan over the fire.
Stir until the mixture boils. Take from the fire, and add all the remaining
ingredients. When cold, freeze as directed on page 7.
This will serve eight persons.
COFFEE
1 pint of strong black coffee
1/2 cupful of sugar
1/2 pint can of condensed milk
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Add the sugar to the hot coffee, and stir until it is dissolved; add the
milk, using water enough to rinse out the cans; add the vanilla. When the
mixture is cold, freeze, turning it rapidly toward the end of the freezing.
This will serve four persons.
PEACH
12 ripe or canned peaches
4 peach kernels
1/2 pint of water
2 half pint cans of unsweetened condensed milk
1/2 pound of sugar
Put the sugar, water and peach kernels over the fire; stir until the sugar
is dissolved, and boil three minutes. Pare the peaches and press them
through a colander, add to them the strained syrup. When cold, turn the
mixture into the freezer and turn the crank slowly until partly frozen; add
the milk, and continue the freezing.
Omit the water and use less sugar with canned peaches.
This will serve ten persons.
ORANGE, No. 1
1 full pint of orange juice
2/3 cupful of sugar
1/2 pint can of condensed milk
Grated yellow rind of two oranges
Grate the rinds into the sugar, add milk and enough water to rinse cans.
When sugar is dissolved, stand it in a cold place. Put orange juice in the
freezer and freeze it quite hard; add sweetened milk, and freeze again
quickly.
This will serve four persons.
ORANGE, No. 2
Freeze a full quart of orange juice. When quite hard, add a can of
sweetened condensed milk, freeze it again, and serve at once.
This is very nice and will serve eight persons.
ORANGE GELATIN CREAM
1/2 pint of orange juice
1 package of orange Jello
1/2 pound of sugar
1 pint can of unsweetened condensed milk
1/2 pint of water
Add the grated yellow rind of two oranges to the Jello; add the sugar and
the water, boiling. Stir until the sugar and Jello are dissolved, add the
orange juice, and when the mixture is cold, put it in the freezer and stir
slowly until it begins to freeze. Add the condensed milk, and continue the
freezing.
This is nice served in tall glasses, with the beaten whites of the eggs
made into a meringue and heaped on top.
In this way it will serve eight persons.
SOUR SOP
1 large sour sop
1/4 pound of sugar
1/2 pint can of unsweetened condensed milk
4 tablespoonfuls of boiling water
Juice of one lime
Squeeze the sour sop, which should measure nearly one quart; add the sugar
melted in the water with the lime juice and milk, and freeze slowly.
This will serve ten persons.
FROZEN PUDDINGS AND DESSERTS
ALASKA BAKE
Make a vanilla ice cream, one or two quarts, as the occasion demands. When
the ice cream is frozen, pack it in a brick mold, cover each side of the
mold with letter paper and fasten the bottom and lid. Wrap the whole in wax
paper and pack it in salt and ice; freeze for at least two hours before
serving time. At serving time, make a meringue from the whites of six eggs
beaten to a froth; add six tablespoonfuls of sifted powdered sugar and beat
until fine and dry. Turn the ice cream from the mold, place it on a serving
platter, and stand the platter on a steak board or an ordinary thick plank.
Cover the mold with the meringue pressed through a star tube in a pastry
bag, or spread it all over the ice cream as you would ice a cake. Decorate
the top quickly, and dust it thickly with powdered sugar; stand it under
the gas burners in a gas broiler or on the grate in a hot coal or wood oven
until it is lightly browned, and send it quickly to the table. There is no
danger of the ice cream melting if you will protect the under side of the
plate. The meringue acts as a nonconductor for the upper part.
A two quart mold with meringue will serve ten persons.
ALEXANDER BOMB
1 pint of cream
1 pint of milk
4 eggs
4 tart apples
1 pint of water
1 glassful of orange blossoms water
1 wineglassful of curacao
1 pound of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Peel, core and quarter the apples; put them in a saucepan with the grated
yellow rind of the lemon, half the sugar and all the water; boil until
tender, and add the juice of the lemon; rub the apples through a sieve.
When cold, freeze. Whip the cream. Beat the eggs and the remaining sugar
and add them to the milk, hot; stir until the mixture thickens, take from
the fire, and, when cold, add the orange blossoms water and the Curacao;
freeze in another freezer. Divide the whipped cream, and stir one-half into
the first and one-half into the other mixture. Line a melon mold with the
custard mixture, fill the centre space with the frozen apples, and cover
over another layer of the custard; put over a sheet of letter paper and
put on the lid. Bind the seam with a strip of muslin dipped in paraffin or
suet, and pack the mold in salt and ice; freeze for at least two hours.
Serve plain, or it may be garnished with whipped cream.
This will serve twelve persons.
BISCUITS AMERICANA
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1/4 pound of Jordan almonds
1 teaspoonful of almond extract
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Yolks of six eggs
Grated rind of one lemon
Put half the cream in a double boiler over the fire, and, when hot, add
the yolks of the eggs and sugar, beaten until very, very light; add all
the flavoring, and stand aside until very cold; when cold, freeze in an
ordinary freezer. Whip the remaining pint of cream, add one-half of it to
the frozen mixture, repack and stand aside to ripen. Blanch, dry and chop
the almonds. Put them in the oven and shake constantly until they are a
golden brown. At serving time, fill the frozen mixture quickly into paper
cases; have the remaining whipped cream in a pastry bag with star tube,
make a little rosette on the top of each case, dust thickly with the
chopped almonds, and send to the table.
This will fill twelve cases of ordinary size.
BISCUITS GLACES
1 pint of cream
3/4 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
1 gill of sherry
2 tablespoonfuls of brandy
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Yolks of six eggs
Put the sugar and water in a saucepan over the fire and stir until the
sugar is dissolved; wipe down the sides of the pan, and boil until the
syrup spins a heavy thread or makes a soft ball when dropped into cold
water. Beat the yolks of the eggs to a cream, add them to the boiling
syrup, and with an egg beater whisk over the fire until you have a
custard-like mixture that will thickly coat a knife blade; strain through a
sieve into a bowl, and whisk until the mixture is stiff and cold. It should
look like a very light sponge cake batter. Add the flavoring. Whip the
cream and stir it carefully into the mixture. Fill the mixture into paper
cases or individual dishes, stand them in a freezing cave or in a tin
bucket that is well packed in salt and ice, cover and freeze for at least
four or five hours.
If you do not have a freezing cave, pack a good sized tin kettle in a small
tub or water bucket. The kettle must have a tight fitting lid. Stand your
cases or molds on the bottom of the tin kettle, which is packed in salt and
ice. Put on top a sheet of letter paper, on top of this another other layer
of molds or cases, and so continue until you have the kettle filled. Put
the lid on the kettle and cover with salt and ice. Make sure that you have
a hole half-way up in the packing bucket or tub, so that there is no danger
of salt water overflowing the kettle. This is a homely but very good
freezing cave.
At serving time, dust the tops of the biscuits with grated macaroons or
chopped almonds, dish on paper mats, and send to the table.
This will fill fifteen biscuit cases.
BISCUITS a la MARIE
1/2 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
1/2 pint of cream
1/2 pound of almond macaroons
1/4 pound of candied or Maraschino cherries
1 teaspoonful of bitter almond extract
Yolks of six eggs
Boil the sugar and water until the syrup will spin a heavy thread. Add the
eggs, beaten until very light. Whip this over the fire for three minutes,
take it from the fire, strain into a bowl, and whip until thick and cold.
Add the flavoring and the macaroons, that have been dried, grated and
sifted. Add the cream, whipped. Fill the mixture into paper cases, and
freeze as directed for Biscuits Glaces.
An extra half pint of cream may be whipped for garnish at serving time, if
desired; otherwise, garnish the top with chopped maraschino cherries, and
send to the table.
This will fill twelve biscuit cases.
BOMB GLACE
Pack a two quart bomb glace mold in salt and ice. Remove the lid, and line
the mold with a quart of well-made vanilla ice cream. Fill the centre with
one half the recipe for Biscuit Glace mixture, that has been packed in
a freezer until icy cold. Put on the lid, bind the edge with a piece of
muslin dipped in paraffin or suet, cover the mold with salt and ice, and
stand aside three hours to freeze.
This will serve twelve persons.
BISCUIT TORTONI
1 quart of cream
1/2 pound of sugar
1 gill of maraschino
2 tablespoonfuls of sherry
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Yolks of six eggs
Put half the cream in a double boiler over the fire. Beat the sugar and
yolks together until very, very light, add them to the hot cream and stir
over the fire until the mixture begins to thicken. Take from the fire,
and, when very cold, add the vanilla, maraschino and sherry, and freeze.
When frozen, stir in the remaining cream, whipped to a stiff froth. Fill
individual dishes or paper cases, stand at once in the freezing kettle or
ice cave; pack and freeze from three to four hours.
This will fill twelve cases.
CABINET PUDDING, ICED
1 quart of milk
6 eggs
1/4 pound of powdered sugar
1 tablespoonful of powdered gelatin
1/4 pound of macaroons and lady fingers, mixed
1/2 pound of conserved cherries or pineapple
1/2 pound of stale sponge cake
Grate the macaroons and lady fingers, and rub them through a coarse sieve.
Cut the sponge cake into slices and then into strips. Put the milk over
the fire in a double boiler and add the eggs and sugar beaten together
until light; stir and cook until the mixture is sufficiently thick to coat
a knife blade. Take from the fire, add the gelatin, strain, and stand
it aside to cool. Garnish the bottom of a two quart melon mold with the
cherries or pineapple, put in a layer of the sponge cake, then a sprinkling
of the macaroons and lady fingers, another layer of the cherries, then the
sponge cake, and so continue until you have all the ingredients used. Add a
teaspoonful of vanilla to the custard, pour it in the mold, cover the mold
with the lid, bind the seam with muslin dipped in paraffin or suet, pack in
salt and ice, and stand aside for three hours.
At serving time, dip the mold quickly into hot water, wipe it off, remove
the lid and turn the pudding on to a cold platter. Pour around a well-made
Montrose Sauce, and send to the table.
This will serve ten or twelve persons.
ICED CAKE
Make an Angel Food or a Sunshine Cake and bake it in a square mold. Make
a plain frozen custard, and flavor it with vanilla; pack it and stand it
aside until serving time. Cut off the top of the cake, take out the centre,
leaving a bottom and wall one inch thick. At serving time, fill the cake
quickly with the frozen custard, replace the top, dust it thickly with
powdered sugar and chopped almonds, and send it to the table with a
sauceboat of cold Montrose Sauce.
This cake may be varied by using different garnishings. Maraschino cherries
may be used in place of almonds, or the base of the cake may be garnished
with preserved green walnuts or green gages, or the top and sides may be
garnished with rosettes of whipped cream.
This will serve twelve persons.
QUICK CARAMEL PARFAIT
Make a quart of Caramel Ice Cream, pack, and stand it aside for two hours.
At serving time, stir in a pint of cream, whipped to a stiff froth, dish
in parfait glasses, and send to the table. The top of the glasses may be
garnished with whipped cream, if desired.
This will fill eight glasses.
QUICK CAFE PARFAIT
Make a quart of plain Coffee Ice Cream, freeze and pack it. Whip one pint
of cream. At serving time, stir the whipped cream into the frozen coffee
cream, dish it at once into tall parfait glasses, garnish the top with a
rosette of whipped cream, and send at once to the table.
This will fill eight glasses.
QUICK STRAWBERRY PARFAIT
This is made precisely the same as other parfaits, with Strawberry Ice
Cream, and whipped cream stirred in at serving time. Serve in parfait
glasses, garnish the top with whipped cream, with a strawberry in the
centre on top.
This will fill eight glasses.
QUICK CHOCOLATE PARFAIT
Make one quart of Chocolate Ice Cream, and add one pint of whipped cream,
according to the preceding recipes.
This will serve eight persons.
MONTE CARLO PUDDING
1 quart of cream
6 ounces of sugar (2/3 of a cupful)
4 tablespoonfuls of creme de violette
1/2 pound of candied violets
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Put half the cream over the fire in a double boiler. Pound or roll the
violets, sift them, add the sugar and sufficient hot cream to dissolve
them. Take the cream from the fire, add the violet sugar, and stir until it
is dissolved; when cold, add the flavoring and the remaining cream. Freeze,
and pack into a two quart pyramid mold; pack in salt and ice for at least
two hours. At serving time, turn the ice on to a platter, garnish the base
with whipped cream, and the whole with candied violets.
This will serve six to eight persons.
BOSTON PUDDING
Make Boston Brown Bread Ice Cream and half the recipe for Tutti Frutti.
When both are frozen, line a melon mold with the Brown Bread Ice Cream,
fill the centre with the Tutti Frutti, cover over more of the Brown Bread
Ice Cream, fasten tightly, and bind the seam of the lid with a strip of
muslin dipped in paraffin or suet. Pack in salt and ice for at least two