Whipt Cream

Origin: Hartford, Connecticut

Source: Amelia Simmons, 1796

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Beat the whites of 8 eggs with half a pint of wine.
  2. Mix together with a quart of cream and sweeten to taste with double refined sugar.
  3. Optionally perfume it with musk or amber gum tied in a rag and steeped a little in the cream.
  4. Whip it up with a whisk that has a bit of lemon peel tied in its middle.
  5. Take off the froth with a spoon and put into glasses.

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