This section is from the book "Mrs. Allen's Cook Book", by Mrs. Ida C. Bailey Allen. See also: The Conscious Cook: Delicious Meatless Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat.
2 cupfuls heavy cream 3/4 cupful powdered sugar 1/8 teaspoonful salt 1/2 cupful quartered marsh-mallows
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1 teaspoonful vanilla 1/2 cupful chopped almonds 1/4 cupful chopped pistachio nuts
Add the salt and sugar to the cream and beat until solid, fold in the nuts, marshmallows and flavoring; pour into the mould, seal, and pack in equal parts of ice and salt for four hours according to the general directions.
Juice 4 oranges
Juice 2 lemons
1 pint heavy cream
Powdered sugar to taste, about 1 1/2 cupfuls
1 cupful chopped walnut meats
Whip the cream, add the fruit juices, gradually, sweeten and stir in the nuts. Pour in a mould, seal, and pack in equal parts of ice and salt for four hours according to the general directions.
2 squares (ounces) chocolate 1/2 cupful milk 1/4 inch stick cinnamon
Few grains salt 1 teaspoonful vanilla 1 pint heavy cream 3/4 cupful sugar
Shave the chocolate and add to the milk with the cinnamon and sugar. Put over hot water and melt the chocolate; then cool, add the salt and vanilla and fold into the cream, whipped. Pour into a mould, seal and pack in equal parts of ice and salt for four hours as directed.
2 cupfuls heavy cream 3/4 cupful powdered sugar 1/4 teaspoonful salt
1 -cupful strawberry juice and sifted pulp 1 teaspoonful lemon juice
Add the lemon juice and sugar to the strawberries. Beat the cream, whipping the strawberry juice in slowly; when all is in, turn into a mould, seal and bury in equal quantities of ice and salt for four hours, according to the general directions.
Unmould and serve with chilled whipped cream and garnish with whole berries. If the berries are very tart, add more sugar.
 
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