836. Ice of Pine-apple

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (7)
For the pine-apple syrup
For the milk infusion
For the custard base
For finishing
Instructions (13)
  1. Prepare the pine-apple by taking off the rind, reserving it, and cutting the apple into pieces an inch in length and about the thickness of a quill.
  2. Place the pine-apple pieces in a sugar-pan with half a pound of sugar and half a pint of water.
  3. Set the pan over the fire and reduce to a rather thickish syrup.
  4. Have ready a pint and a half of milk upon the fire.
  5. When the milk is boiling, throw in the reserved pine-apple rind, cover, and let infuse for ten minutes.
  6. In another stewpan, have the yolks of twelve eggs.
  7. Gradually add the strained infused milk to the egg yolks.
  8. Place the mixture over the fire, stirring constantly until it adheres to the back of the spoon.
  9. Pass the mixture through a tammy into a basin.
  10. Add the pine-apple syrup and pine-apple pieces to the basin.
  11. Freeze the mixture as described in the previous recipe.
  12. When the mixture is half frozen, add a pint and a half of whipped cream.
  13. Continue freezing until fully frozen and use as directed.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
836. Ice of Pine-apple.—Procure a rather small pine-apple, take off the rind, which reserve, and cut the apple into pieces an inch in length and about the thickness of a quill, place them in a sugar-pan, with half a pound of sugar and half a pint of water, set it upon the fire and reduce to a rather thickish syrup, have ready a pint and a half of milk upon the fire, into which, when boiling, throw the rind of the pine-apple, cover it over and let infuse ten minutes; in another stewpan have the yolks of twelve eggs, to which add the milk by degrees (previously straining it), place over the fire, keeping it stirred until adhering to the back of the spoon, when pass it through a tammy into a basin, add the syrup and pine-apple, and freeze it as in the last, adding a pint and a half of whipped cream; when half frozen, use where directed.
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