This section is from the book "Practical Dietetics: With Reference To Diet In Disease", by Alida Frances Pattee. Also available from Amazon: Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Disease.
(Four Servings).
3 tablespoons butter.
6 tablespoons powdered sugar.
Nutmeg.
½ white of egg.
½ tablespoon cream.
Cream butter; add sugar gradually. When light and creamy add the unbeaten white of egg and the cream, a drop or two at a time. Season highly. Heap on serving dish and cool.
(Three Servings).
¼ cup butter. ½ egg.
½ cup powdered sugar. 1 tablespoon wine.
Cream butter; add sugar gradually, the well-beaten egg and the wine. Heat over hot water, beating constantly. Serve immediately.
½ cup thick cream (40%) = 432 Calories. Do not have cream too thick; season with sugar and any flavoring desired; put in bowl and set bowl in another utensil containing a little cold water and ice. Beat cream with Dover egg-beater until stiff enough to keep its form. Set on ice to keep cold.
Do not beat too long or it may turn to butter. To one-half cup thick cream add three tablespoons milk.
1 egg white =10 to 15 Calories. Follow the above recipe, and add the white of one egg beaten stiff, folding it into the stiffly-beaten cream.
(Two Servings).
6 tablespoons fruit juice.
½ teaspoon arrowroot or cornstarch.
Blend starch with a little cold water and pour into the hot fruit juice. Boil two or three minutes. Sweeten if desired.
See chapter "Gelatin" for recipe. Page 210.
 
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