Whipt Cream
Origin: Hartford, Connecticut
Source: Amelia Simmons, 1796
Ingredients
- 1 quart cream
- 8 egg whites
- 1/2 pint wine
- double refined sugar
- musk or amber gum
- 1 lemon peel
Instructions
- Beat the whites of 8 eggs with half a pint of wine.
- Mix together with a quart of cream and sweeten to taste with double refined sugar.
- Optionally perfume it with musk or amber gum tied in a rag and steeped a little in the cream.
- Whip it up with a whisk that has a bit of lemon peel tied in its middle.
- Take off the froth with a spoon and put into glasses.