Orange Cream
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 1 oz isinglass
- 6 large oranges
- 1 lemon
- sugar to taste
- water
- 1/2 pint good cream
- OPEN MOULD.]
Instructions
- Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemon;
- strain it, and put it into a saucepan with the isinglass, and sufficient water to make in all 1-1/2 pint.
- Rub the sugar on the orange and lemon-rind, add it to the other ingredients, and boil all together for about 10 minutes.
- Strain through a muslin bag, and, when cold, beat up with it 1/2 pint of thick cream.
- Wet a mould, or soak it in cold water;
- pour in the cream, and put it in a cool place to set.
- If the weather is very cold, 1 oz. of isinglass will be found sufficient for the above proportion of ingredients.