Boiled Cream

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (7)
  1. Take a quart of the thickest cream you can get, season it with fine sugar and orange-flower waters, and boil it.
  2. Beat the whites of twenty eggs with a little cold cream.
  3. Take out the trediles, which you must do by straining it after it is beat.
  4. While the cream is on the fire, and just to pour in your eggs, stirring it all the time one way, till it comes to a thick curd.
  5. Take it up and pass through a hair-sieve.
  6. Beat it very well with a spoon till cold.
  7. Put it into dishes for use.
Original Text
TAKE a quart of the thickeſt cream you can get, season it with fine sugar and orange-flower waters, and boil it; then beat the whites of twenty eggs with a little cold cream, take out the trediles, which you must do by straining it after it is beat, and whilſt the cream is on the fire, and just to pour in your eggs, stirring it all the time one way, till it comes to a thick curd, then take it up and paſs through a hair-sieve, then beat it very well with a spoon till cold, and put it into dishes for use.
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