A Dish of Snow

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 (5)
Instructions (8)
  1. Take twelve large apples, and put them into a saucepan with cold water.
  2. Set them over a slow fire, and when they are soft, pour them in a hair sieve.
  3. Take off the skins, and put the pulp into a bason.
  4. Beat the whites of twelve eggs to a very strong froth.
  5. Beat and sift half a pound of double-refined sugar, and strew it into the eggs.
  6. Work up the pulp of your apples to a strong froth, then beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow.
  7. Lay it upon a china dish, and heap it up as high as you can.
  8. Set round it green knots of paste, in imitation of Chinese rails, and stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle of the dish.
Original Text
A Dish of Snow. TAKE twelve large apples, and put them into a sauce- pan with cold water. Set them over a slow fire, and when they are soft, pour them in a hair sieve; take off the skins, and put the pulp into a bason. Then beat the whites of twelve eggs to a very strong froth; beat and sift half a pound of double-refined sugar, and strew it into the eggs. Work up the pulp of your apples to a strong froth, then beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow. Lay it upon a china dish, and heap it up as high as you can. Set round it green knots of paste, in imita- tion of Chinese rails, and stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle of the dish.
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