King William's Cream

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (5)
Instructions (6)
  1. Beat the whites of three eggs very well.
  2. Squeeze out the juice of two large or three small lemons.
  3. Take two ounces more than the weight of the juice of double refined sugar, and mix it together with two or three drops of orange-flower water, and five or six spoonfuls of fair spring water.
  4. When all the sugar is melted, put the whites of the eggs into the pan and the juice.
  5. Set it over a slow fire, and keep stirring it till you find it thicken.
  6. Then strain it through a coarse cloth quick into the dish.
Original Text
To make King WILLIAM's Cream. BEAT the whites of three eggs very well, then squeeze out the juice of two large or three small lemons; take two ounces more than the weight of the juice of double refined sugar, and mix it together with two or three drops of orange-flower water, and five or six spoonfuls of fair spring water; when all the sugar is melted, put the whites of the eggs into the pan and the juice, set it over a slow fire, and keep stir- ring it till you find it thicken, then strain it through a coarse cloth quick into the dish.
Notes