(from The Book of Household Management, edited by Isabella Beeton, 1861)
(A fashionable iced pudding. - Carême's Recipe)
Ingredients:
40 chestnuts
1 lb. of sugar
flavouring of vanilla
1 pint of cream
12 egg yolks
1 glass of Maraschino cherries
1 oz. of candied citron
2 oz. of currants
2 oz. of stoned raisins
1/2 pint of whipped cream
3 eggs
Instructions:
1313. INGREDIENTS. - 40 chestnuts, 1 lb. of sugar, flavouring of vanilla, 1 pint of cream, the yolks of 12 eggs, 1 glass of Maraschino, 1 oz. of candied citron, 2 oz. of currants, 2 oz. of stoned raisins, 1/2 pint of whipped cream, 3 eggs.
Mode. - Blanch the chestnuts in boiling water, remove the husks, and pound them in a mortar until perfectly smooth, adding a few spoonfuls of...