Hot Weather Dishes

Philadelphia, 1888: what to eat when it is too hot to cook, from the cooking-school teacher who taught the city.

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Snow Pudding

1½ box gelatine 2 cups of sugar Juice of three lemons I quart of milk 4 eggs I teaspoonful of vanilla I pint of boiling water Cover the gelatine with cold water, and let it soak a half hour. Then pour over it the boiling water, add the sugar, and stir until it is dissolved; then add the lemon juice, and strain the whole into a tin basin; place this in a pan of ice water, and let stand until cold. When cold, beat with an egg beater, until as white as snow; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir them into the pudding. Dip a fancy mould into cold water; turn the pudding into it, and stand in a cold place four hours to harden.

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