Viennese Meringue Mushrooms

Fancy ices · Marshall, A. B. (Agnes B.) n 50075751 · 1894
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Ingredients (7)
Meringue Mushrooms
Filling and Decoration
Instructions (8)
  1. Prepare some mushroom meringues (see recipe).
  2. Before the stalks are fitted in, make a hollow in the underneath part of the mushrooms with an egg.
  3. When ready to serve, fill up the spaces thus formed with very stiffly-whipped cream, and smooth this off level with a palette knife.
  4. Sprinkle over the cream some of Fry's powdered Caracas chocolate.
  5. Place a stalk in the centre of each in the cream.
  6. Arrange the mushrooms straight down a dish on a bed of frozen strawberry ice cream ('Book of Ices,' page 22).
  7. On each side of these arrange similarly some thick pieces of stamped-out pineapple that are sprinkled with blanched and finely-shredded pistachio nuts.
  8. Serve for a dinner or luncheon sweet.
Original Text
Viennese Meringue Mushrooms Champignons Meringues à la Viennoise Prepare some mushroom meringues (see recipe), and before the stalks are fitted in make a hollow in the underneath part of the mushrooms with an egg, and when ready to serve fill up the spaces thus formed with very stiffly-whipped cream, and smooth this off level with a palette knife; sprinkle over the cream some of Fry's powdered Caracas chocolate, place a stalk in the centre of each in the cream, and then arrange the mushrooms straight down a dish on a bed of frozen strawberry ice cream ('Book of Ices,' page 22), and on each side of these arrange similarly some thick pieces of stamped-out pineapple that are sprinkled with blanched and finely-shredded pistachio nuts. Serve for a dinner or luncheon sweet.
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