Fancy Creams

Ingredients

• 1 pint cream
• 4 ounces powdered white sugar
• lemon rind
• 1 glass sherry wine
• 0.5 ounce isinglass

Instructions

1. Put the cream into a basin and add the powdered white sugar and the lemon rind that has been rubbed on a lump of sugar, along with the sherry wine. Whisk them well together. Mix in the dissolved isinglass and beat the whole mixture thoroughly. Fill the mould and set it in ice until wanted.
2. Variations may be made by adding a tablespoonful of maraschino for Italian cream; a tablespoonful of fresh or preserved pineapple (with a little lemon syrup) for pineapple cream; a tablespoonful of ratafia for ratafia cream; the juice of strawberries or raspberries for fruit creams; or any kind of small preserved fruit for mille fruit cream.