Civic League Cook Book Part 13

Spoon into a mold lined with lady fingers or slices of sponge cake and place on ice for one hour.

ANOTHER STRAWBERRY CHARLOTTE.--Mash one cupful of strawberries and sweeten according to the acidity of the berry. Let stand to draw the juice, an hour, then strain. Dissolve one level tablespoonful of granulated gelatine in two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Set the bowl containing it in a pan of hot water and stir until smooth, add it to the strained strawberry. Now whip one cupful of cream, sweetened with two level tablespoonfuls of sugar, lightly fold the strawberry gelatine in, a few drops at a time. Turn into a wet mold and put on ice for two hours. If carefully mixed there will be no settling at the bottom. The mold for this need not be lined with cake, but a delicate wafer of some sort, preferably vanilla, should be served with it if it is molded plain.

LEMON JELLY.--Soak one box Knox sparkling gelatine in one pint cold water, two minutes; add two pints boiling water, one and one half cups sugar, and stir until dissolved; add juice of three lemons, strain through jelly bag into molds.

CHOCOLATE BLANC MANGE.--One half box Knox sparkling gelatine, one quart sweet milk, one half cup cold water, one cup sugar, two ounces grated chocolate. Soak the gelatine in the cold water; boil the sweet milk with sugar and grated chocolate and a little salt, five minutes; then add dissolved gelatine, stirring constantly; flavor with vanilla, and pour into mold; serve with whipped cream.

PINEAPPLE JELLY.--Read this recipe carefully and follow instructions.

Soak one box Knox gelatine in one pint cold water, set on stove in double boiler to dissolve; when gelatine is cold and beginning to set, beat into it pineapple juice and pineapple, and place on ice to harden.

Be sure you follow the above, for if you mix pineapple and its syrup with gelatine when you first make it, the acid in it will digest the gelatine so it will not harden.

WINE JELLY.--Soak one box Knox sparkling gelatine in one half pint cold water two minutes, add one quart boiling water, one and one half cups sugar, and stir until dissolved; add one half pint wine and juice of two lemons; strain and pour into mold.

NUT CREAMS.--Soak two large tablespoons of gelatine in one half cup milk. Set in hot water until melted, but do not heat. Whip one pint cream, reserving a cupful after it is whipped. Turn the gelatine into the cream adding one half teaspoonful of sugar, the beaten white of an egg, a teaspoon of vanilla and a large cup of chopped hickory and walnuts. Whip until stiff. Mold in small cups that have been wet with cold water. When ready to serve turn on a flat dish, put on remainder of whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts.--Mrs. Alleman.

MAPLE CREAM GELATINE.--One half package Knox gelatine dissolved in one cup cold water; one cup maple syrup heated to boiling point, mix with gelatine, strain through a cloth and cool. Beat one pint of cream, mix in and add one cup nuts.--Mrs. Schollander.

BROD TORTE.--One cupful of rye breadcrumbs, eight eggs, a cupful of granulated sugar, one quarter pound of almonds, sliced or ground, (I prefer them sliced), one quarter pound of citron, sliced thin; one half ounce of bitter chocolate (grated), a lemon, juice and rind; one teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, one half teaspoonful of cloves, a winegla.s.sful of brandy. Dry the bread in the oven and put through food grinder or sifter. Mix almonds, citron, chocolate and spices with the crumbs. Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar until thick; add lemon juice and heat again. Mix the dry ingredients with beaten eggs and sugar; next put in the brandy and, lastly, the whites of four eggs beaten stiff, are folded into the mixture. (Reserve the other four for the meringue. Pour into a "spring form" and bake in a moderate oven.

When the "torte" is done, spread jelly on the top and the meringue made with the reserved eggs upon the jelly. Put back into the oven until the meringue is lightly colored.

GERMAN PAN CAKES FOR DESSERT OR LUNCH.--Beat yolks of six eggs and then beat whites of three to a stiff froth. Mix with three fourths cup grated bread crumbs, one cup cream and a large cupful of flour, pour in a b.u.t.tered sauce pan, sprinkle with sugar and stir over the fire until thick then fry in b.u.t.ter, on a hot skillett, like pan cakes. Put on a hot dish, sift powdered sugar on them and sprinkle with lemon juice and serve hot.--Contributed.

FRUIT TRIFLE.--Beat whites of six eggs light, add six tablespoons of sugar and beat about half an hour then beat in one cupful of grated pineapple or cut up fresh strawberries or fresh raspberries or cut up fresh, ripe peaches or apricots or any fruit jam or jelly and beat five minutes. Serve ice cold in sherbet gla.s.ses as it is or chopped with flavored whipped cream. "Trifle" is sometimes made by using whipped cream, sweetened, and adding one cupful of cut up fresh berries, or peaches or orange pulp or bananas chopped, or half a gla.s.s of any fruit, jam or any jelly cut into small pieces. Beat it through the whipped cream. This is a simple and palatable dessert which can be quickly made.--Mrs. Whitehead.

JUNKET.--One quart of warm milk, two tablespoons brandy; wine or vanilla; two tablespoons sugar, one junket tablet or one tablespoon of rennet. Stir well together, then let it stand undisturbed until thick, then place on ice. Serve with sugar, nutmeg and cream. This is another dainty and easily made dessert.--Mrs. Whitehead.

Ice Cream, Sherbets, Ices and Frozen Dainties

"Which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather."--Shakespeare.

ICE CREAM.--In packing the freezer use rock salt and crush the ice very fine. Put it in a heavy grain sack and pound and mash until nearly as fine as snow. Measure ice and salt allowing four parts ice to one of salt or ten pounds of ice to three of salt. Pack ice in layers three inches deep, then shake over one large saucerful of salt, then another three inch layer of ice and more salt, alternating ice and salt until you reach top of can. Pack the can with cream, put on the top of freezer, and let cream stand until it freezes on edges, then turn the dasher slowly for ten minutes, then quickly until cream is frozen thick but not too hard. Remove the dasher, put on the top and cork, repack freezer with ice, cover with heavy carpet and let cream ripen two or three hours.--Mrs. C. H. McKay.

ICE CREAM.--Without cooking. Two quarts of thick cream, two cups sugar.

Mix and stand until sugar dissolves. Flavor to suit taste and freeze.--Mrs. C. H. McKay.

CARAMEL ICE CREAM.--Beat three eggs, one cup sugar and one half cup of flour together and cook with one pint rich milk. Brown one cupful of granulated sugar to a caramel and add to this hot custard. Cool and add one quart thick cream. Freeze.--Mrs. C. H. McKay.

CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM.--Let one large pint of milk come to a boil, add one cup of sugar and one third cup of flour mixed with the beaten yolks of three eggs; three fourths cake of sweet chocolate. Cook until thick and creamy, stirring constantly. Cool and add one quart of cream, one cup sugar and pinch of salt. Add vanilla flavoring and freeze. When partly frozen add the beaten whites of the eggs and freeze until firm but not too hard. Pack freezer well, cover and let it ripen two or three hours if possible.--Mrs. C. H. McKay.

MARYLAND ICE.--Two quarts ripe strawberries mashed with four cups sugar. Stand one hour and squeeze out the juice through a sieve or cheese cloth. Add two quarts of water and freeze. Remove water from freezer when ice is half frozen, pack, and let it stand twenty minutes.

Then scoop out the center; leave wall intact. Make a filling of one pint of cream, one half cup sugar, one teaspoon flavoring beaten and whipped until stiff. Add one half cup of chopped or rolled nuts. Fill the cavity in the strawberry ice with this mixture. Repack the freezer and let it ripen four or more hours. When ready to serve, remove freezer can, wrap it in a cloth dipped in boiling water, let stand one minute when the mould of ice cream will slip out easily onto the serving platter. Serve in thick slices.--Mrs. C. H. McKay.

MOUSSE.--(Without cream.) Rub one quart of berries through a sieve, add one cupful of powdered sugar, one ounce of dissolved gelatine, and the whites of five eggs beaten stiff. Put in a mold and pack in ice and salt for three or four hours.--Mrs. C. H. McKay. (Editorial Note.--The above recipes were demonstrated by Mrs. McKay in her paper on "Ice Cream, Ices and Frozen Dainties" at Domestic Science club.)

VANILLA ICE CREAM.--One quart thick cream, seven tablespoons of sugar, one half of a vanilla bean. Cut bean into halves, sc.r.a.pe out seeds and mix with sugar. Add sugar to half of the cream, and put in the balance of the bean. Heat and dissolve sugar in hot cream. Remove from fire, strain and cool. Add remaining cream and freeze. The flavor of the bean makes delicious ice cream but of course good vanilla extract may be subst.i.tuted. Use a tablespoon of extract. Plain ice cream is nice served with hot chocolate caramel sauce or with maple sauce and chopped nuts.--Mrs. Whitehead.

CHOCOLATE CARAMEL SAUCE.--One and one half cups brown sugar, one half cup of milk, four ounces of chocolate. Stir all together on back of range until chocolate is melted and smooth; then boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water. Serve hot over the ice cream. Makes a nice pudding sauce also and is nice on cream puffs or eclairs.--Mrs.

Whitehead.

RED RASPBERRY ICE CREAM.--Follow directions for chocolate ice cream given above, omitting the chocolate and adding one quart of ripe red raspberries pressed through a sieve and sweetened, when the cream is half frozen, and when the meringue is added also. Proceed with the freezing and ripen two or more hours before serving. Strawberries, apricots and peaches are equally as good used this way.--Mrs.

Whitehead.

TORTONI ICE CREAM.--Boil one and one half cups sugar with water to cover until it threads from the spoon. Pour it over the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beat well. Scald one quart of new milk and add beaten yolks of eggs. Cool and mix with one pint of cream (may be whipped but isn't necessary) and six crumbled almond macaroons. Flavor with vanilla or almond extract. Mix all together and freeze. Cocoanut may be used in place of macaroons but it should be sprinkled with sugar and slightly browned in the oven first.--Mrs. Whitehead.

MAPLE MOUSSE.--Boil a cupful of maple syrup three minutes and stir into the beaten yolks of three eggs. Put back in dish syrup was boiled in and boil two minutes. Cool. Whip a quart of cream and add the cooled mixture and freeze. Do not stir. In the winter it may be simply set out of doors, or may be packed in ice and salt.--Mrs. G. A. McIntosh.

CARAMEL PUDDING.--Take one and one third cups of brown sugar and put in pan on stove and melt, stirring constantly to prevent burning. When melted add very slowly one third cup of boiling water.--Mrs. G. A.

McIntosh.

Cold Desserts

MAPLE MOUSSE.--Four eggs beaten stiff, one cup of maple syrup. Cook until it thickens, then beat until cool. Then add one pint of whipped cream, pack in salt and ice for several hours.

FROZEN RICE PUDDING.--One cup rice, one quart milk, one quarter teaspoon salt, one cup sugar, one cup cream, one teaspoon flavoring.

Cook rice in milk until soft, add sugar, salt and flavoring and pour into freezer when cold. Whip cream and add to the mixture when nearly frozen.--Mrs. Schollander.

Fruit, Ices or Sherbets

LEMON SHERBET.--One pound of sugar and one quart of water boiled to thin syrup and when cool add the grated rind of two lemons and the juice of six. For a water ice stir it now and then in the freezer and freeze slowly until like wet snow. For a sherbet freeze quickly until light and stiff. For a sorbet, add a meringue made of the beaten white of egg and sugar to the partially frozen ice.

ORANGE SHERBET.--Add the juice of six oranges and grated rind of three and the juice of one lemon to the above sugar and water syrup and freeze.

PINEAPPLE SHERBET.--Add one pint of grated pineapple and juice of one lemon to above syrup and freeze rapidly.

MINT SHERBET.--Pound the leaves of two dozen stalks of mint to a pulp, add to the syrup as above with the juice of two lemons and freeze or use mint extract.

GRAPE SHERBET.--Add the juice of one lemon and a pint of grape juice to the above syrup and freeze.

BERRY SHERBET.--Add one pint of the berry juice and juice of two lemons to above syrup and freeze.

CRANBERRY SHERBET.--One pint of strained and sweetened cooked cranberry juice and the juice of two lemons added to above syrup and freeze stiff. Fruit jellies may be melted and strained and used as subst.i.tutes for the fresh fruit juice.

FROZEN STRAWBERRIES.--Mash one quart of berries, add one and one half cups sugar and the juice of one lemon. Let it stand one hour, then add one pint of water and freeze like ice cream. Serve in punch gla.s.ses with whipped cream. Peaches and apricots are also nice frozen likewise as are cooked cranberries pressed through a colander.

FRAPPE.--This is strictly speaking of drink partially frozen until like wet snow. Grape Frappe is frozen coffee and lemon Frappe is partly frozen lemonade. A punch is merely a cold fruit drink with a block of ice floating in it. It is usually made of a combination of fruit juices sweetened and wines and liquors are frequently added to it.

PARFAIT AND MOUSSE.--This is frozen whipped cream, sweetened and flavored to suit the taste. It is packed in a mould and buried in crushed ice and salt for several hours. The cream should be frozen one and one half inches deep. The center remains soft. The opening of the mould should be bound with a strip of muslin dipped in melted suet or b.u.t.ter. Quick parfait is made by adding whipped cream to ice cream. At serving time beat in the whipped cream. Coffee ice cream with whipped cream is much liked, as are chocolate and caramel ice cream served this way. Macaroon mousse is made by adding crushed and rolled macaroons to whipped cream and burying the mould in ice and salt. Chopped nuts are used the same way and crushed fruit.

LEMON ICE.--Two and three fourths cups sugar, two tablespoons corn starch; add one quart boiling water. When cool add juice of eight lemons and when half frozen add whites of three eggs and one pint thick cream.--Mrs. D. E. Plier.

CURRANT ICE.--One pint currant juice (or two gla.s.ses of currant jelly), two lemons and one orange, three cups sugar, two quarts water. Pour juices over sugar and stir until dissolved then add water and freeze.

The whites of two eggs may be added just before the freezing is completed.--Mrs. Schollander.