Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

Ices And Ice-Cream

15 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

Chocolate Ice-Cream

Scald one pint new milk, add by degrees three-quarters of a pound sugar, two eggs, and five table-spoons chocolate, rub smooth in a little…

Eggless Ice-Cream

A scant tea-cup flour to two quarts new milk; put three pints on to boil (in tin pail set in a kettle of boiling water), mix the flour with…

Ice-Cream (Three pints sweet cream quart)

Three pints sweet cream, quart new milk, pint powdered sugar, the whites of two eggs beaten light, table-spoon vanilla; put in freezer till…

Ice-Cream (One quart new milk two eggs)

One quart new milk, two eggs, two table-spoons corn starch; heat the milk in a dish set in hot water, then stir in the corn starch mixed…

Lemon Ice-Cream

Squeeze a dozen lemons, make the juice quite thick with white sugar, stir into it very slowly, three quarts of cream, and freeze. Orange…

Pine-Apple Ice-Cream

Three pints cream, two large ripe pine-apples, two pounds powdered sugar; slice the pine-apples thin, scatter the sugar between the slices…

Strawberry Ice-Cream

Sprinkle strawberries with sugar, wash well and rub through a sieve; to a pint of the juice add half a pint of good cream, make it very…

Kentucky Cream

Make a half gallon rich boiled custard, sweeten to taste, add two table-spoons gelatine dissolved in a half cup cold milk; let the custard…

Apple Ice

Grate, sweeten and freeze well-flavored apples, pears, peaches_or quinces. Canned fruit may be mashed and prepared in the same way.

Currant Ice

Boil down three pints of water and a pound and a half sugar to one quart, skim, add two cups of currant juice. and when partly frozen, add…

Lemon Ice

To one pint of lemon juice, add one quart of sugar, and one quart of water, in which the thin rind of three lemons has been allowed to…

Orange Ice

Boil three-quarters of a pound of sugar in one quart of water; when cool add the juice of six oranges; steep the rinds in a little water…

Strawberry Ice

Mash two quarts of strawberries with two pounds of sugar; let stand an hour or more, squeeze in a straining cloth, pressing out all the…

Tea Ice-Cream

Pour over four table-spoons of Old Hyson tea, a pint of cream, scald in a custard-kettle, or by placing the dish containing it in a kettle…

Water Ice

To a quart of water, add one pound of sugar, flavor to taste, and freeze. Jellies were formerly reputed nourishing, digestible, and fit…

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