Battenberg Ices
Petites Glaces à la Battenberg
Prepare a Neapolitan Ice as in ‘Book of Ices,’ page 17; cut from it some square pieces about one inch thick, and put them on the shelf in the charged ice cave on a sheet of paper for about half an hour before using. Whip some cream, sweeten it with castor sugar, flavour it with vanilla essence, put it into a forcing bag with a small rose-pipe, and form a little rose in the centre and at each corner of the squares of ice; put on the centre rose any fruit (such as a strawberry, cherry, grape, or pieces of angelica or pistachio) that has been dipped into boiled sugar (see recipe); arrange each ice on a little silver sauté pan on a Neapolitan ice paper, and serve one to each person for a dinner or dessert ice, or for ball suppers, tennis parties, &c., and hand George’s Cheltenham Wafers on a plate.