Lemon Honey-comb

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

juice of one lemon ↝ Lemon juice, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
fine ſugar to your pa-late
a pint of cream ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
the white of an egg in ſome ſugar ↝ Egg, white only, raw [Eggs and omelets]

Instructions (4)

Sweeten the juice of one lemon with fine sugar to your palate.
Put a pint of cream and the white of an egg in some sugar and beat it up.
As the froth rises, take it off and put it on the juice of the lemon, till you have taken all the cream off upon the lemon.
Make it the day before you want it, in a dish that is proper.

Original Text

To make a Lemon Honey-comb.
SWEETEN the juice of one lemon with fine ſugar to your pa-late; then put a pint of cream, and the white of an egg in ſome ſugar, and beat it up; and as the froth riſes, take it off, and put it on the juice of the lemon, till you have taken all, the cream off upon the lemon: make it the day before you want it, in a diſh that is proper.

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