Cream Froth

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (4)
  1. Take a quart of thick cream, and the whites of eight eggs beat well, with half a pint of sack, mix it together, and sweeten it to your taste with double-refined sugar.
  2. You may perfume it, if you please, with a little musk or amber-greaſe tied in a rag, and steeped a little in the cream, whip it up with a wisk, and some lemon-peel tied in the middle of the wisk.
  3. Take the froth with a spoon, and lay it in your glasses or bastons.
  4. This does well over a fine tart.
Original Text
TAKE a quart of thick cream, and the whites of eight eggs beat well, with half a pint of sack, mix it together, and sweeten it to your taste with double-refined sugar. You may perfume it, if you please, with a little musk or amber-greaſe tied in a rag, and steeped a little in the cream, whip it up with a wisk, and some lemon-peel tied in the middle of the wisk; take the froth with a spoon, and lay it in your glasses or bastons. This does well over a fine tart.
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