This section is from the book "Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book", by Jane Eayre Fryer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book.
Procure new flower-pots, about two and a half inches in diameter; wash thoroughly; fill with ice cream; cover with grated chocolate to represent soil, and stick a flower in each.
Line a chilled bombe mold with frozen strawberries or grape sherbet and fill the center with vanilla ice cream. Cover the top with more sherbet; press down the lid over a sheet of paper, making it fit closely so that no salt can get in. Let stand in ice and salt for an hour or more.
See Meringues, chapter on "Cakes."
1 quart milk 4 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
Bring the milk to a boil; pour it slowly on the yolks of the eggs well beaten with the sugar; add the whites beaten to a stiff froth and boil until a thick custard is formed. When the steam has passed off, add the flavoring; cool and freeze.
1 1/2 cups shredded cocoanut 1 quart hot milk 1 cup sugar
Yolks of 5 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Lady fingers
Chop the cocoanut very fine. Beat the eggs with the sugar; add the hot milk and stir over the fire until the mixture begins to thicken. Remove; add the flavoring and cool. Then add the cocoanut and mix thoroughly. Turn into a freezer and freeze. Serve in sherbet glasses lined with lady fingers.
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Yolk of 1 egg
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup preserved fruit
1 cup seeded raisins 1/4 cup chopped nuts Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 pint thick cream
Mix the cornstarch with a little cold milk; add the beaten egg and pour over it the milk which has been scalded with the sugar. Cook thoroughly; remove from fire; add salt, vanilla, fruit and nuts; cool, add the cream whipped to a stiff froth and freeze.
When frozen turn into a mold. At serving time lay in a platter and decorate with walnuts or candied cherries.
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate 2 tablespoons water
Custard
Mix the ingredients; heat and stir until thoroughly smooth; add them to a custard made as for Economical Ice Cream and freeze.
1 quart cream 1/2 pound sugar
1/2 ounce chopped almonds
1/2 pound preserved or candied fruit
Scald the cream and sugar; cool; add the nuts and fruits and freeze.
3 pints thin cream 1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 pound macaroons 1 tablespoon vanilla
Soak the macaroons in cream; mash and add to the cream in which the sugar has been dissolved; then add the vanilla and freeze.
3 pints thin cream 1 1/2 cups sugar
Yolks of 3 eggs 1 cup strong coffee
1 1/2 tablespoons gelatine
Beat the eggs light; mix with the sugar; add one pint of the cream and make a custard. Dissolve the gelatine in the coffee and when cool add to the cream that remains; add the custard when cool; mix well and freeze. Half milk may be used if desired.
 
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