Hartshorn Cream

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil the hartshorn shavings in water until it is reduced to half a pint.
  2. Run the liquid through a jelly bag.
  3. Add the cream to the liquid and let it just boil up.
  4. Pour the mixture into jelly glasses and let it stand until cold.
  5. To remove the cream from the glasses, dip the glasses into scalding water; it will then slip out whole.
  6. Decorate the cream by sticking slices of almonds cut length-ways all over it.
  7. Serve with white wine and sugar, similar to flummery.
Original Text
To make HARTSHORN CREAM. TAKE four ounces of hartshorn shavings, boil them in three pints of water till it is reduced to half a pint, run it through a jelly bag, put to it a pint of cream, let it just boil up, then put it into jelly glasses, let it stand till it is cold, by dipping your glasses into scalding water it will slip out whole, then stick them all over with slices of almonds cut length-ways: it eats well with white wine and sugar, like flummery.
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