Pineapple Cream
1 small can grated pineapple, 1 cup
water, 1 of sugar. Let it come to a boi package
gelatine soaked in 1 cup cold water fifteen minutes,
then pour 2 cups boiling water on it. Put this
with the pineapple and boil with the juice of 2 lemons.
Have ready the whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, and
pour gradually in the boiling mixture. Serve with
whipped cream when cool. This should be made
the day before using.
Duchess Cream
1/2 pint tapioca soaked over night
in 1/2 pint of cold water; in the morning drain, and
cover with boiling water and cook till clear, stirring
constantly. Remove from fire, add juice of 1 lemon,
1 cup grated pineapple, 1 cup sugar and the beaten
whites of 2 eggs. Serve cold with cream.
Russian Cream
1/2 box gelatine to 1 quart milk and
3 eggs. The milk, yolks of eggs and gelatine
are put together hot on stove, and just as it is taken
off, the whites are stirred in. Add flavoring
and mold it.
Spanish Cream
3/4 box of gelatine soaked soft in
1-1/2 pints milk; bring to a boil. Stir in the
beaten yolks of 3 eggs, 3 tablespoons sugar, then bring
to a boil again. Beat the whites to a stiff froth
and stir in after removing from the fire. Flavor
with vanilla. Pour in a mold to cool, and serve
with cream.
Lemon Cream
1 large lemon, 4 eggs, 4 tablespoons
sugar, 3 of water. Beat yolks and sugar, add
juice and rind of lemon, and water. Let simmer
till it thickens. Beat whites of eggs stiff with
2 tablespoons of sugar, and stir into the custard
while warm.
Banana Cream
Peel and wash bananas. Use equal
parts of bananas and sweet cream. To 1 quart
of the mixture allow 1/4 pound of sugar. Beat
all together till the cream is light. Some consider
it an improvement to add a few drops of vanilla, or
the juice of canned pineapple.
Coffee Bavarian Cream
1/2 pint rich cream whipped light,
1/2 package gelatine soaked in 1 cup milk, 1 large
cup strong coffee, 1 cup white sugar and whites of
2 eggs. Soak the gelatine until perfectly soft,
have the coffee boiling hot, and turn over the gelatine
and sugar. Strain and set away until partly stiff.
Beat the eggs to a stiff froth, and mix with the whipped
cream; add to the gelatine, mixing thoroughly.
Mold and serve with whipped cream.
Bavarian Cream with Peaches
Cut 18 fine peaches, or a sufficient
number of canned ones, into small pieces, and boil
with 1/2 pound of sugar. When reduced to a marmalade
press through a coarse sieve, then add 1/2 package
dissolved gelatine, and a tumbler of cream. Stir
this well to make it smooth, and when about set, add
1 pint of whipped cream, and pour into a mold.
It makes a still prettier dish to serve half or quarter
of peaches, half frozen, around the cream.
Charlotte Russe
1 pint cream, whipped light, 1/2 ounce
gelatine dissolved in 1 gill of hot milk, whites of
2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, 1 small teacup of
powdered sugar. Flavor with vanilla or little
almond. Mix together the cream, eggs, sugar and
flavoring, and beat in the gelatine and milk when
quite cold. Line a mold with slices of sponge
cake or lady fingers, and fill with the mixture.
Set upon the ice to cool.
Champagne Jelly
1 box gelatine, 1 pint boiling water,
1/2 pint cold water, 1/2 pint sherry, 1 lemon, 1 lime,
3/4 pound sugar, 1 teaspoon essence cinnamon.
Soak gelatine in cold water, add hot water, sugar,
wine, lemon and lime, and boil five minutes.
Add 1 pint champagne and strain twice.
Coffee Jelly
1/2 box gelatine soaked in cold coffee.
When well dissolved, pour in a pint of boiling coffee,
sweeten to taste, and set aside to cool. When
quite cold and almost jellied, beat up till it becomes
a light foam. Pour into mold and place on ice.
Serve with whipped cream.