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Biscuits Glaces

Ices, extra sweet and rich, in little paper cases made to imitate cakes, sometimes with a brown crust on top as if baked. Very handsome little rice paper cases can now be procured for this and similar purposes. Fill them with any kind of ice or with a number of different varieties. There is no rule as to kinds but nut creams, caramel, chocolate and strawberry ice creams, and the sponge ices to be mentioned further on, are the most suitable Smooth over, roll some macaroons to powder and sift that over to give the brown appearance, then place the ice biscuits in a freezing box to remain till time to serve. Small quantities of ice creams, etc., for biscuits glaces and for lining a mold, can be frozen without the trouble of the regular packing of a freezer for each kind in any sort of deep tin vessel set in a tub of ice and salt, by rapid stirring with a spoon or paddle while the vessel is kept in motion with the other hand. A quart in each can generally be frozen in 10 or 15 minutes. Ices for biscuits glaces that are made with 1 pound or 1 1/2 pounds of sugar to a quart have a glossy appearance when well worked and draw from the spoon like pulled candy.

A freezing box: It is a simple and easy matter to freeze ice cream in a mold that can have the lid put on, be sealed and dropped into the freezing tub from which the ice cream freezer has just been removed. A freezing box involving the use of a larger amount of freezing material is, however, indispensable for some articles. An empty ice cream freezer with the lid on, packed around and on top with ice and salt, is an example of what is wanted. A glass of cream placed inside might be frozen solid in an hour or two. But something more spacious can generally be improvised, such as a broad and shallow boiler set in a tub. The article must have a lid that will admit of ice and salt being packed all over it without danger to the contents. "Now I have lived long enough to know that each generation says the same thing, and is laughed at for its pains by the generation following."--Savarin