1/2 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
1 pint of cream
1/2 pint of chopped mixed candied fruits
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
4 tablespoonfuls of sherry
Yolks of six eggs
Pour the sherry over the fruit. Beat the yolks until creamy. Put the sugar
and water over the fire, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and boil five
minutes; add the yolks of the eggs, beat until it again reaches the boiling
point, take from the fire and beat until cold and thick. Add the cream, the
fruit and the vanilla. Freeze as directed on page 7.
This is usually served in small ice cream glasses garnished with whipped
cream, or may be served plain. In the absence of ice cream glasses, use
ordinary punch glasses.
This will fill ten glasses.
LALLA ROOKH
Fill a lemonade or ice cream glass two-thirds full of vanilla ice cream.
Make a little well in the centre and fill the space with rum and sherry
mixed. Allow four tablespoonfuls of rum and six of sherry to each half
dozen cups.
PEACHES MELBA
Dish a helping of vanilla ice cream in the centre of the serving plate,
place in the centre of the ice cream a whole brandied peach, press it down
into the ice cream, baste over four tablespoonfuls of Claret Sauce, and
serve.
LILLIAN RUSSELL
Cut into halves small very cold cantaloupes. Remove the seeds; fill the
centres of the half melons with vanilla ice cream, and garnish with whipped
cream pressed through a small star tube. Dish the halves on paper mats on a
dessert plate, and send to the table.
ARROWROOT CREAM
1 quart of milk
6 ounces of sugar
1 level tablespoonful of arrowroot
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
Moisten the arrowroot with a little cold milk; put the remaining milk in a
double boiler; when hot, add the arrowroot and cook ten minutes; add the
sugar, take from the fire, and add the vanilla, When perfectly cold, freeze
as directed on page 7.
This will serve six persons.
ENGLISH APRICOT CREAM
1/2 pint of apricot jam
1 pint of cream
1/2 pint of milk
2 tablespoonfuls of noyau
Juice of one lemon
Mix the jam and the cream, then carefully add the noyau and the lemon
juice. Press through a fine sieve, add the milk, and freeze as directed on
page 7.
This will serve six persons.
FROZEN CUSTARD
1 quart of milk
6 ounces of sugar
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
Yolks of four eggs
Put the milk in a double boiler, add the yolks of the eggs and the sugar
beaten together, and stir until the mixture thickens. Take from the fire,
and, when cold, add the vanilla. Turn into the freezer and freeze as
directed. A little chopped conserved fruit may be added at last when the
dasher is removed. Chopped black walnuts may also be added.
This will serve six persons.
GELATIN ICE CREAM
1 quart of milk
1/2 pint of cream
6 ounces of sugar
1 tablespoonful of granulated gelatin
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
Cover the gelatin with a little cold milk and stand it aside for fifteen
minutes. Put the remaining milk in a double boiler; when scalding hot, add
the sugar and the gelatin; stir until the sugar is dissolved, take from the
fire, and, when perfectly cold, add the cream and the vanilla. Freeze as
directed on page 7.
This will serve six persons.
FROZEN PLUM PUDDING
2 pint cans of condensed milk
1/2 cupful of seeded raisins
1/2 pound of sugar
24 almonds that have been blanched and chopped
2 ounces of shredded citron
1/4 pound of candied cherries
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla
2 tablespoonfuls of sherry
1/2 pint of water
Yolks of four eggs
Put milk in a double boiler over the fire, and stir until the milk is
thoroughly heated; add the yolks of the eggs and the sugar beaten together,
cook until it begins to thicken, take from the fire and strain. When cold,
add the citron, raisins, the cherries cut into quarters, the almonds,
vanilla and sherry. When this is perfectly cold, freeze as directed. Do not
repack or allow the mixture to stand in the freezer more than a half hour.
Serve plain or with Montrose Sauce.
One quart of good rich milk may be used in place of the condensed milk.
This will serve twelve persons.
CHARLOTTE GLACÉ
Make a quart of vanilla ice cream and stir into it a pint of cream whipped
to a stiff froth. Line round stiff paper charlotte boxes with lady fingers,
fill them with the iced mixture, and place them at once in a can or bucket
packed in salt and ice to freeze for one or two hours.
This quantity will fill twelve boxes.
MAPLE PANACHÉE
Fill stem ice cream dishes half full with caramel ice cream; on top put a
layer of vanilla ice cream. Smooth it down and dust thickly with toasted
pecan nuts chopped fine.
A pint of each cream will fill six dishes.
GERMAN CHERRY BISCUITS
Fill paper cases half full of pineapple water ice. Put over a layer of
candied cherries chopped, then a layer of vanilla ice cream; smooth it
quickly, place a marron glacé in the centre, and garnish the cream with
a meringue made from the whites of two eggs and two tablespoonfuls of
powdered sugar. Dust this with grated macaroons, and send to the table.
Make the meringue and grate the macaroons before dishing the ice cream.
A pint of each cream will fill eight cases.
FRUIT SALAD, ICED
Make one quart of lemon or orange water ice and stand it aside for at least
one or two hours to ripen. Make a fruit salad from stemmed strawberries,
sliced bananas cut into tiny bits, a few very ripe cherries, a grated
pineapple if you have it, and the pulp of four or five oranges. After the
water ice is frozen rather hard, pack it in a border mold, put on the lid
or cover and bind the seam with a strip of muslin dipped in paraffin or
suet, and repack to freeze for three or four hours. Sweeten the fruit
combination, if you like, add a tablespoonful or two of brandy and sherry,
and stand this on the ice until _very cold_. At serving time, turn the mold
of water ice on to a round compote dish, quickly fill the centre with fruit
salad, garnish the outside with fresh roses or violets, and send at once to
the table.
This will serve eight or ten persons at luncheon.
COUPE ST. JACQUE
Make a fruit salad as in preceding recipe. Make a pint of orange or
strawberry ice. At serving time fill parfait or ice cream glasses half full
of the fruit salad, fill the remaining half with water ice, smooth it over,
garnish the top with whipped cream, put a maraschino cherry in the centre,
and serve. Other fruits may be used for the salad.
This should make twelve tumblers.
WATER ICES AND SHERBETS OR SORBETS
A water ice is a mixture of water, fruit and sugar, frozen without much
stirring; in fact, a water ice can be made in an ordinary tin kettle packed
in a bucket. If an ice cream freezer is used, the stirring should be done
occasionally. Personally, I prefer to pack the can, put on the lid and
fasten the hole with a cork rather than to use the dasher, stirring now and
then with a paddle. If you use the crank, turn slowly for a few minutes,
then allow the mixture to stand for five minutes; turn slowly again, and
again rest, and continue this until the water ice is frozen. A much longer
time is required for freezing water ice than ice cream.
When the mixture is thoroughly frozen, take out the dasher, scrape down the
sides of the can, give the ice a thorough beating with a wooden spoon; put
the cork in the lid of the can, draw the water from the tub, repack it with
coarse ice and salt, cover it with paper and a piece of blanket or burlap,
and stand aside for two or three hours to ripen just as you would ice
cream.
When it is necessary to make water ice every day or two, it is best to make
a syrup and stand it aside ready for use.
Fruit jellies may be used in the place of fresh fruits, allowing one pint
of jelly, the juice of one lemon and a half pound of sugar to each quart of
water.
When water ice is correctly frozen, it has the appearance of hard wet snow.
It must not be frothy nor light.
A sherbet or sorbet is made from the same mixture as a water ice, stirred
constantly while it is freezing, and has a meringue, made from the white of
one egg and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, stirred in after the dasher
is removed.
APPLE ICE
1 pound of tart apples
1 cupful of sugar
1 pint of water
Juice of one lemon or lime
Quarter and core the apples, but do not pare them. Slice them, add the
water, cover and stew until tender, about five minutes. Press through a
sieve, add the sugar and lemon juice. When cold, freeze as directed. Serve
in lemonade glasses at dinner with roasted duck, goose or pork.
This will serve six persons.
APRICOT ICE
1 quart can of apricots
1/2 cupful of sugar
1 pint of water
Juice of one lemon
Press the apricots through a sieve, add all the other ingredients, and
serve. This is nice served in lemonade glasses for afternoon tea. Pass
sweet wafers.
This will serve eight persons.
CHERRY ICE
2 full quarts of sour cherries
1 pound of sugar
1 quart of water
Stew the cherries in the water for ten minutes and press through a sieve,
add the sugar, and, if you have it, two drops of Angostura Bitters; when
cold, freeze it as directed on page 63.
This will serve ten persons.
CURRANT WATER ICE
1 pint of currant juice
1 pound of sugar
1 pint of boiling water
Add the sugar to the water, and stir over the fire until it is dissolved.
Boil five minutes, take from the fire; when cool, add the currant juice.
When cold, freeze as directed on page 63.
This will serve six persons.
CURRANT AND RASPBERRY WATER ICE
1 pint of currant juice
1 pint of raspberry juice
1 pint of water
3/4 pound of sugar
Add the sugar to the water, stir until boiling, boil five minutes, and,
when cool, add the raspberry and currant juices, and freeze as directed.
This will serve six persons; in punch glasses, eight persons.
GRAPE WATER ICE
1 pint of grape juice
1 quart of water
1 pound of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Boil the sugar and water together for five minutes, take from the fire, add
the lemon juice, and skim. When cold, add the grape juice, and freeze as
directed.
If fresh grapes are to be used, select Muscatels or Concords. Pulp the
grapes, boil the pulps, press them through a sieve, and add the skins and
the pulps to the sugar and water. Boil five minutes, press as much as
possible through a sieve, and freeze.
This will serve eight persons.
LEMON WATER ICE
4 large lemons
1 quart of water
1-1/4 pounds of sugar
Grate the yellow rind of two lemons into the sugar, add the water, stir
over the fire until the sugar is dissolved, and boil for five minutes.
Strain, and stand aside to cool. When cold, add the juice of the lemons,
and freeze as directed on page 63.
This will serve six persons.
GINGER WATER ICE
6 ounces of preserved ginger
4 lemons
1 quart of water
1 pound of sugar
Put four ounces of the ginger through an ordinary meat grinder, and cut
the remaining two ounces into fine bits. Boil the sugar and water together
for five minutes, and add the lemon juice and ground ginger. Take from the
fire, add the bits of ginger, and, when cold, freeze as directed. Ginger
water ice is better for a two hour stand, after it is frozen. Nice to serve
with roasted or braised beef.
This will serve six persons; in small punch glasses, eight.
MILLE FRUIT WATER ICE
1/2 pint of grape juice
6 lemons
1 orange
4 tablespoonfuls of sherry
1/2 pound of preserved cherries or pineapple, or both mixed
1-1/2 pounds of sugar
1 quart of water
Grate the yellow rind of the orange and one lemon into the sugar, add the
water, stir over the fire until the sugar is dissolved, boil five minutes,
and strain. Add the fruit cut into small pieces, the juice of the orange
and the lemons; when cold, add the grape juice and sherry, and freeze,
using the dasher. Do not stir rapidly, but stir continuously, as slowly as
possible. When the mixture is frozen, remove the dasher and repack the can;
ripen at least two hours.
This is one of the nicest of all the water ices, and may be served on the
top of Coupe St. Jacque, or at dinner in sherbet glasses with roasted veal
or beef.
This will serve ten persons.
ORANGE WATER ICE
12 large oranges
1 pound of sugar
1 quart of water
Grate the yellow rind from three oranges into the sugar, add the water,
boil five minutes, and strain; when cold, add the orange juice, and freeze
as directed for water ices.
This will serve ten persons.
POMEGRANATE WATER ICE
12 good sized pomegranates
1 pint of water
1 pound of sugar
Cut the pomegranates into halves, remove the seeds carefully from the
inside bitter skin; press them with a potato masher in the colander,
allowing the juice to run through into a bowl; be careful not to mash the
seeds. Add the sugar to the juice and stir until it is dissolved; then add
the water, cold, and freeze. This is very nice to serve with a meat course,
and also nice for the garnish of a fruit salad.
This will serve six persons.
PINEAPPLE WATER ICE
2 ripe pineapples or
1 quart can of grated pineapple
1 quart of water
1-1/2 pounds of sugar
Juice of two lemons
Pare the pineapples, remove the eyes, and grate the fruit into the water.
Add the sugar and lemon juice, boil five minutes, and, when cold, freeze as
directed on page 63.
This will serve ten persons.
STRAWBERRY WATER ICE
1 quart of strawberries
1 pound of sugar
1 quart of water
Juice of two lemons
Add the sugar and the lemon juice to the stemmed strawberries, let them
stand one hour; mash them through a colander, and then, if you like, strain
through a fine sieve. Add the water, and freeze as directed on page 63.
This will serve eight persons.
RASPBERRY WATER ICE
1 quart of red raspberries
1 pound of sugar
1 quart of water
Juice of two lemons
Add the sugar and the lemon juice to the raspberries, stir and stand aside
one hour. Press through a sieve, add the water, and freeze as directed on
page 63.
This will serve eight persons.
ROMAN PUNCH
Make one quart of lemon water ice. When ready to serve, fill it into small
punch glasses, make a little well in the centre and fill the space with
good Jamaica rum.
This will serve eight persons.
SOUR SOP SHERBET OR ICE
Squeeze the juice from one large sour sop, strain, and add four
tablespoonfuls of sugar, boiled a moment with four tablespoonfuls of water.
Freeze as directed on page 63.
A quart of sour sop when frozen will serve six persons.
CRANBERRY SHERBET
1 pint of cranberries
1/2 pound of sugar
1/2 pint of water
Add the water to the cranberries, cover, bring to a boil; press through a
colander, return them to the fire, add the sugar, and stir until the sugar
dissolves. Take from the fire, and, when cold, freeze, stirring slowly all
the while.
Serve with the meat course at dinner.
This will serve eight persons.
CUCUMBER SORBET
2 large cucumbers
2 tart apples
1 pint of water
1 teaspoonful of sugar
1/2 teaspoonful of salt
1 tablespoonful of gelatin
1 saltspoonful of black pepper
Juice of one lemon
Peel the cucumbers, cut them into halves and remove the seeds. Dissolve the
gelatin in a half cupful of hot water. Grate the flesh of the cucumbers;
grate the apples, add them to the cucumbers, and add all the other
ingredients. Freeze as you would ordinary sherbet.
Serve in tiny glasses, with boiled cod or halibut.
This will fill eight small stem glasses.
GOOSEBERRY SORBET
1/2 pint of gooseberry jam
4 tablespoonfuls of sugar
1 pint of water
Juice of one lemon
Mix all the ingredients together and freeze, turning slowly all the while.
Serve in small glasses.
This is usually served at Christmas dinner with goose.
This will serve six persons.
ORANGE SHERBET
1 pint of orange juice
2 tablespoonfuls of gelatin
3/4 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
Cover the gelatin with an extra half cupful of cold water and soak for a
half hour. Add the sugar to the pint of water and stir it over the fire
until it boils; add the grated yellow rind of two oranges and the juice;
strain through a fine sieve and freeze, turning the freezer slowly all the
while. Remove the dasher, stir in a meringue made from the white of one
egg, and repack to ripen for an hour at least.
This will serve six persons.
MINT SHERBET
2 dozen stalks of spearmint
1/2 pound of sugar
1 quart of water
Juice of three lemons
Strip the leaves from the stalks of the mint, chop them to a pulp and rub
them with the sugar. Add the water, bring to a boil, boil five minutes,
and, when cold, add three drops of green coloring and the juice of the
lemons; strain and freeze, turning slowly all the while.
Serve at dinner with mutton or lamb.
This will serve six persons; in small stem glasses, eight persons.
TOMATO SORBET OR SHERBET
1 quart can or 12 fresh tomatoes
1 slice of onion
1 blade of mace
1 saltspoonful of celery seed
1 pint of water
1 teaspoonful of salt
1 teaspoonful of paprika
1 tablespoonful of gelatin
Juice of one lemon
A dash of cayenne
Add all the ingredients to the tomatoes, stir over the fire until the
mixture reaches the boiling point, boil five minutes, and strain through a
fine sieve. When this is cold, freeze according to the rule for sherbets,
turning slowly all the time.
Serve in punch glasses at dinner as an accompaniment to roasted beef, or
venison, or saddle of mutton.
If fresh tomatoes are used, simply cut them into halves and cook them
without peeling.
This will fill nine or ten punch glasses.
FROZEN FRUITS
Frozen fruits are mixed and frozen the same as water ices, that is, they
are only stirred occasionally while freezing, but the fruit must be mashed
or it will form little balls of ice through a partly frozen mixture. The
only difference between a water ice and a frozen fruit is that the mixture
is not strained, and more fruit and less water is used. If canned fruits
are used, and these recipes followed, cut down the sugar. Cream may be used
in place of water with sub-acid fruits.
FROZEN APRICOTS
1 quart of apricots
2 tablespoonfuls of gelatin
1 cupful of sugar
1 pint of cream
Drain the apricots from the can, mash them through a colander, add the
sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Cover the gelatin with a half
cupful of cold water and soak for a half hour. Stand it over hot water,
stir until dissolved, add it to the apricot mixture, and freeze. When
frozen, remove the dasher and stir in the cream whipped to a stiff froth.
Repack and stand aside two hours to ripen.
This will serve ten persons.
FROZEN BANANAS
12 large ripe bananas
1 pound of sugar
1/2 pint of water
1 pint of cream
Juice of two lemons
Peel the bananas and mash them through a colander. Add the sugar to the
water, and boil five minutes; when cold, add the lemon juice and the
bananas. Put the mixture into a freezing can, stir slowly until frozen.
Remove the dasher and stir in carefully the cream whipped to a stiff froth.
This will serve ten or twelve persons.
FROZEN CHOCOLATE
1 quart of milk
3 ounces of chocolate
2/3 cupful of sugar
1 pint of water
1/2 pint of cream, whipped
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Grate the chocolate and put it in a double boiler with the water and sugar;
let the water in the surrounding boiler boil fifteen minutes, beat well,
and add the milk. Stir until thoroughly mixed, and the milk is very hot.
Take from the fire, add the vanilla, and when the mixture is cold, freeze,
turning slowly all the while. Serve in chocolate cups with the whipped
cream on top.
This will fill nine chocolate cups.
FROZEN PINEAPPLE
2 large pineapples
1 quart of water
1 pound of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Peel the pineapples and grate them. Add the sugar to the water, stir until
the sugar is dissolved, boil five minutes and cool; add the pineapple and
lemon juice, and freeze, turning the freezer slowly.
This will serve eight or ten persons.
FROZEN COFFEE
1 quart of cold water
1/2 pound of sugar
6 heaping tablespoonfuls of finely ground coffee
1/2 pint of cream
Put the coffee and the water in a double boiler over the fire, and let the
water in the surrounding boiler boil for at least twenty minutes after it
begins to boil. Strain through two thicknesses of cheese cloth, add the
sugar, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and stand aside until very cold.
Add the cream and the unbeaten white of one egg. Freeze, turning the
freezer slowly. This should be the consistency of a soft mush and very
light.
Serve in coffee cups, either plain or with whipped cream on top.
This will serve six persons,
FROZEN PEACHES, No. 1
2 pounds of very ripe peaches
6 peach kernels
1 pint of water
1/2 pound of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Crack the kernels, chop them fine, add them to the sugar, add the water,
and boil five minutes; strain and stand aside to cool. Pare the peaches,
press them through a colander, add them to the cold syrup, turn into the
freezer, and stir slowly until the mixture is frozen. If the peaches are
colorless, add a few drops of cochineal before freezing.
This will serve eight persons.
FROZEN PEACHES, No. 2
1 quart of peach pulp
1 pint of cream
3/4 pound of sugar
Juice of one lemon
Add the lemon juice to the peach pulp, add the sugar, and stand aside,
stirring every now and then until the sugar is dissolved. Freeze the
mixture, stirring slowly; when frozen, remove the dasher, and fold in the
cream whipped to a stiff froth.
This is one of the nicest ices for afternoon or evening collations.
This will serve eight persons; in stem glasses, ten persons.
FROZEN RASPBERRIES
1 quart of raspberries
3/4 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
Juice of one lemon
Add the sugar and the lemon juice to the berries, mash them with a potato
masher. Let them stand one hour, add the water, and freeze.
This will serve eight persons.
FROZEN WATERMELON
Scrape the centre from a very ripe watermelon, chop quickly and press
through a colander. To each pint of this juice, add a half cupful of sugar
and four tablespoonfuls of sherry. Freeze until it is like wet snow. Serve
in glasses. One pint will fill three stem glasses.
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
1 quart of very ripe strawberries
1 pound of sugar
1 pint of water
Juice of one lemon
Add the sugar and lemon juice to the berries, let them stand one hour. Mash
the berries through a colander, add the water, and freeze, turning the
dasher constantly but very slowly.
This will serve eight persons.
FRAPPÉ
A frappé is nothing more nor less than a water ice partly frozen. For
instance, Café Frappé is a partly frozen coffee. The mixture looks like
wet snow. A Champagne Frappé is champagne packed in salt and ice and the
bottles agitated until the champagne is partly frozen.
PARFAIT
A parfait is a dessert made from frozen whipped cream, sweetened and
flavored. An old fashioned parfait was not frozen in an ice cream freezer;
the mixture was packed at once into a mold, the mold packed in salt and ice
to freeze for two or three hours. To be perfect, the mixture must be frozen
on the outside to the depth of one and a half to two inches, with a soft
centre. The quick parfait given under frozen desserts is now in general
use.
MOUSSE
A mousse is a parfait frozen to the centre. These mixtures are not smooth
like ice cream, but are frozen in crystals and to be exactly correct,
should look like moss when cut.
BURNT ALMOND MOUSSE
1/4 pound of Jordan almonds
2 ounces of almond paste
2/3 cupful of powdered sugar
1 pint of thick cream
1 teaspoonful of almond extract
Whip the cream to a very stiff froth. Blanch, toast and grind the almonds,
putting them through an ordinary meat grinder; rub them with the almond
paste, adding the extract and about two tablespoonfuls of water or sherry.
Sprinkle the sugar over the whipped cream, and then fold in the nut
mixture. Pack at once into a mold, put on the lid, fasten the seam with a
strip of muslin dipped in paraffin or melted suet, and pack in coarse salt
and ice to freeze for two or three hours.
Serve plain or dusted with chopped almonds.
This will serve six persons.
COFFEE MOUSSE
1 pint of cream
1/2 cupful of powdered sugar
2 tablespoonfuls of coffee extract
Whip the cream to a stiff froth, sprinkle over the sugar, add the coffee
extract, and, when well mixed, pack and freeze.
This will serve six persons.
EGYPTIAN MOUSSE
1/2 cupful of rice
1 tablespoonful of gelatin
2/3 cupful of sugar
1/4 pound of dates
1/2 pint of milk
1 pint of cream
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Wash the rice, throw it into boiling water, boil rapidly twenty minutes;
drain, add the milk, and cook in a double boiler fifteen minutes. Add the
sugar, the gelatin that has been moistened in cold water, and the dates
chopped. Take from the fire, add the vanilla, and when the mixture is cold,
fold in carefully the whipped cream. Freeze as directed in a mold, and
serve with cold quince jelly sauce.
This will serve ten persons.
DUCHESS MOUSSE
4 eggs
1/2 cupful of sugar
1 pint of cream
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
5 drops of cochineal