Fancy Creams
Origin: London, England
Source: Anonymous, 1846
Ingredients
- 1 pint cream
- 4 ounces powdered white sugar
- lemon rind
- 1 glass sherry wine
- 1/2 ounce isinglass
Instructions
- Put into a basin a pint of cream, to which add four ounces of powdered white sugar, the rind of a lemon rubbed on a lump of sugar, and a glass of sherry wine.
- Whisk them well and mix with it half an ounce of dissolved isinglass.
- Beat it all thoroughly together and fill the mould, which should be set in ice till wanted.
- A table spoonful of marasquino added to the above will make Italian cream.
- A table spoonful of fresh or preserved pine-apple will make pine-apple cream; this will require the addition of a little lemon syrup.
- A table spoonful of ratafia will make it ratifia cream.
- The juice of strawberries or raspberries makes fine fruit creams.
- Mille fruit cream is made by mixing with the cream any kind of small preserved fruit.