The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie

A great Victorian hostess's private recipe collection, gathered from the cooks, ambassadors and country houses of a lifetime — never meant for publication, and published after her death exactly as she kept it, attributions and all.

Sweet Dishes

5 recipes in this part of The Cookery Book of Lady Clark.

Cheesecakes

Parmesan Custard. See "Talmouses," No. 2, under Cheeses and Cheese Dishes. Cheesecakes - Yorkshire. See Cheesecakes - Curd.

Cream

cream"). - "Leche Crema" (pronounced laychy crayma - Spanish, literally "milk Beat up 3 eggs, leaving out 2 of the whites, and add to them…

Moulds

pass it through a tammy into a basin, and let it get cold. Freeze it slightly first for 10 minutes, then add to it 1 pt. of whipped cream…

Tarts

In making fruit tarts put sugar over the fruit to make it shrink, and take care the oven to be not too slack, so that the dome of paste may…

Sweet Puddings (See also Sweet Dishes Memo)

(See also Sweet Dishes); Memo on turning out Puddings. To turn puddings well out of the mould, be sure all the pudding moulds are dry in…

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