Authentic Coffee Cream (1864)

[donna]

This recipe for Coffee Cream (dessert) is from "Civil War Recipes Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book".

"This is a delicate and agreeable dish for an evening entertainment. Dissolve one ounce and a quarter of isinglass in a half a pint of water. Boil for two hours a teacupful of whole coffee (beans) in about half a pint of water , add a teacupful to the melted isinglass. Put them into a saucepan with half pint of milk, and let the whole boil up; sweeten with loaf-sugar, and let it stand ten minutes to cool, then add a pint of good cream; stir it well up, and pour it into a mould, and out it into cool place to fix; turn out on a glass dish before serving up."

For the isinglass you can substitute plain gelatin. Also, "to fix" means to set and chill.

Note:
Isinglass is a preparation of nearly pure gelatin made from the swim bladders of certain fish.

Loaf sugar is a conical mass of concentrated sugar.

 

[nitrofd]

Never heard of Isinglass,didn't they have gelatin back then.

 

[donna]

Here is history of gelatin:

 

[donna]

Here is 1864 recipe using coffee as an ingredient.