Richer Cream Drink

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (8)
  1. Boil the cream with whole spice.
  2. Take the cream from the fire and stir in the well-beaten and strained eggs.
  3. Add sugar to taste.
  4. Stir in a pint or more of wine (sack, sherry, or Lisbon).
  5. Set it on the fire again and let it stand awhile.
  6. Gently raise the mixture from the bottom of the skillet with a ladle, breaking it as little as possible, until it is thick enough.
  7. Gently put it into a basin with a ladle.
  8. Be careful not to overwork or rush the process, as it may whey.
Original Text
Another way, richer. Take two quarts of cream, and boil it with whole spice; then take twelve eggs, well beaten and strained; take the cream from the fire, and stir in the eggs, and as much sugar as will sweeten it according to the taste of those who are to drink it; then a pint of wine, or more—sack, sherry, or Lisbon. Set it on the fire again, and let it stand awhile; then take a ladle, and raise it up gently from the bottom of the skillet you make it in, and break it as little as you can, and do so till you see that it is thick enough. Then put it into a basin with a ladle gently. If you do it too much or too quickly it will whey, and that is not good.
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