This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
1 ounces of sweet almonds. 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. 6 bitter almonds. 1/2 two-ounce package of gelatine. 1 cup of hot milk. 1 cup of cream. 1 pint of milk. 3/4 cup of sugar.
Blanch the almonds and pound them to a paste with the vanilla; pour over them the cup of hot milk and let stand an hour, then pass through a very fine sieve or a piece of cheesecloth. Soften the gelatine in half a cup of milk from the pint; scald the rest of the milk and in it dissolve the gelatine and sugar; then strain over the almond milk, let cool, and add the cream and more flavoring if needed. Stir until beginning to set, then turn into a mould.
 
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