Snow and Cream

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
Custard
Topping
Instructions (4)
  1. Make a rich boiled custard and put it in the bottom of your china or glass dish.
  2. Take the whites of eight eggs beat with rose water and a spoonful of treble refined sugar, till it is a strong froth.
  3. Put some milk and water into a broad stew-pan, and when it boils take the froth off the eggs, and lay it on the milk and water, and let it boil once up.
  4. Take it off carefully, and lay it on your custard.
Original Text
SNOW and CREAM, a pretty Supper Dish. MAKE a rich boiled custard, and put it in the bottom of your china or glass dish, then take the whites of eight eggs beat with rose water and a spoonful of treble refined sugar, till it is a strong froth; put some milk and water into a broad stew-pan, and when it boils take the froth off the eggs, and lay it on the milk and water, and let it boil once up; take it off carefully, and lay it on your custard.
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