The New Royal Cook Book

Royal Baking Powder's 1922 campaign against yeast, in the form of a cookbook: bread mixed and baked in an hour and a half.

Frozen Desserts

10 recipes in this part of The New Royal Cook Book.

How to Freeze

Scald can, cover and dasher, adjust can in freezer; put in dasher; pour in the mixture to be frozen and fasten cover (the can should never…

Philadelphia Ice Cream

1 quart cream 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Scald half pint of cream; add sugar and stir until dissolved. Cool and add remainder…

Strawberry Ice Cream

Add to Philadelphia Ice Cream before freezing one quart of berries which have been washed, hulled, crushed and slightly sweetened.

Chocolate Ice Cream

Melt 2 squares unsweetened chocolate with half pint cream and proceed as for Philadelphia Ice Cream.

French Ice Cream

1 cup milk yolks of 4 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 quart cream Scald milk and add to beaten yolks of…

Frozen Pudding

3 cups milk 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon corn starch 1 cup chopped mixed fruit Scald milk in double boiler. Mix corn starch with a…

Grape Sherbet

1 pint grape juice 1 cup sugar 1 quart milk Warm grape juice, and in it dissolve sugar; mix thoroughly with ice cold milk; freeze at once…

Lemon Sherbet

Juice of 3 lemons 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 quart milk Mix juice and sugar, stirring constantly while slowly adding very cold milk. If added too…

Orange Water Ice

6 oranges, juice only 2 teaspoons orange extract 1 lemon, juice only 1 quart water 2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup cream Mix all ingredients…

Strawberry Mousse

1 box strawberries 1 cup sugar 1/4 box or 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine 2 tablespoons cold water 3 tablespoons boiling water. 1 quart…

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