Custard for Centre of Murietta Bomb

Fancy ices · Marshall, A. B. (Agnes B.) n 50075751 · 1894
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Ingredients (15)
Custard base
Flavoring
Additions after freezing
Instructions (9)
  1. Put bayleaves, cloves, cinnamon, and castor sugar into the milk or cream.
  2. Bring to the boil.
  3. Stir the boiling mixture onto the raw egg yolks.
  4. Return the mixture to the stewpan and stir on the fire until it thickens.
  5. Rub the mixture through a clean tammy cloth.
  6. When cool, add orange-flower water, Marshall's Carmine, vanilla essence, Silver Rays rum, and Kirsch liqueur or syrup.
  7. Pour the mixture into the freezing machine and freeze it to the consistency of a batter.
  8. Add whipped cream, preserved ginger, dried pine-apple, and dried greengages, cutting all these up into the tiniest square pieces.
  9. Refreeze and use as instructed.
Original Text
Custard for Centre of Murietta Bomb.—Take three-quarters of a pint of new milk or cream, and put in it one inch bayleaves, four cloves, a strip of cinnamon about one inch long, and one ounce of castor sugar; bring to the boil, stir it on to three raw yolks of eggs, return it to the stewpan and stir it on the fire till the mixture thickens, then rub it through a clean tammy cloth, and when cool add to it two tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water, a few drops of Marshall's Carmine, a teaspoonful of vanilla essence, a tablespoonful of Silver Rays rum, and half a wineglass of Kirsch liqueur or syrup; pour the mixture into the freezing machine and freeze it to the consistency of a batter, then add half a pint of whipped cream, one ounce of preserved ginger, half an ounce of dried pine-apple, and two dried greengages, cutting all these up into the tiniest square pieces; refreeze and use as instructed.
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