To make a fine Cream
Origin: Hartford, Connecticut
Source: Amelia Simmons, 1796
Ingredients
- 1 pint cream
- sugar
- nutmeg
- 1 spoonful orange flower water
- rose water
- 2 spoonfuls wine
- 4 eggs
- 2 egg whites
Instructions
- Sweeten a pint of cream to your palate.
- Grate in a little nutmeg.
- Add a spoonful of orange flower water and rose water and two spoonfuls of wine.
- Beat up four eggs and two additional whites.
- Stir it all together one way over the fire until it is thick.
- Have cups ready and pour it in.