A Dish of SNOW

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)
for decoration
Instructions (9)
  1. Take twelve large apples, put them in cold water, and set them over a very slow fire.
  2. When they are soft, pour them upon a hair sieve, take off the skin, and put the pulp into a bason.
  3. Beat the whites of twelve eggs into a very strong froth.
  4. Beat and sift half a pound of double refined sugar, and strew it into the eggs.
  5. Beat the pulp of your apples to a strong froth.
  6. Beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow.
  7. Lay it upon a china dish, and heap it up as high as you can.
  8. Set round it green knots of paste in imitation of Chinese rails.
  9. Stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle of the dish, and serve it up.
Original Text
To make a Dish of SNOW. TAKE twelve large apples, put them in cold water, and set them over a very slow fire, and when they are soft pour them upon a hair sieve, take off the skin, and put the pulp into a bason, then beat the whites of twelve eggs into a very strong froth, beat and sift half a pound of double refined sugar, and strew it into the eggs, beat the pulp of your apples to a strong froth, then beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow, then lay it upon a china dish, and heap it up as high as you can, and set round it green knots of paste in imitation of Chinese rails, stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle of the dish, and serve it up.—It is a pretty corner dish for a large table.
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