Boiled Cream

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
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The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil a pint of cream with sugar, and a little lemon-peel shred fine.
  2. Beat up the yolks of six eggs and the whites of four eggs separately.
  3. When your cream has got cool, put in your eggs, with a spoonful of orange-flower-water, and one of fine flour.
  4. Set it over the fire, keep stirring it till it is thick.
  5. Pour it into a dish.
  6. When it is cold, sift a quarter of a pound of fine sugar all over it.
  7. Hold a hot salamander over it, till it is of a nice light brown colour.
Original Text
BOIL a pint of cream with sugar, and a little lemon-peel shred fine; and then beat up the yolks of six, and the whites of four eggs separately. When your cream has got cool, put in your eggs, with a spoonful of orange-flower-water, and one of fine flour. Set it over the fire, keep stirring it till it is thick, and then pour it into a dish. When it is cold, sift a quarter of a pound of fine sugar all over it, and hold a hot salamander over it, till it is of a nice light brown colour.
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