The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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Chapter XXV − COLD DESSERTS  
Irish Moss Blanc−Mange  
/3 cup Irish moss  
1
4
1
/4 teaspoon salt  
cups milk  
1/2 teaspoons vanilla  
1
Soak moss fifteen minutes in cold water to cover, drain, pick over, and add to milk; cook in  
double boiler thirty minutes; the milk will seem but little thicker than when put on to cook,  
but if  
cooked longer blanc−mange will be too stiff. Add salt, strain, flavor, re−strain, and fill  
individual  
moulds previously dipped in cold water; chill, turn on glass dish, surround with thin slices of  
banana, and place a slice on each mould. Serve with sugar and cream.  
1
Chocolate Blanc−Mange  
Irish Moss Blanc−Mange flavored with chocolate. Melt one and one−half squares  
unsweetened  
chocolate, add one−fourth cup sugar and one−third cup boiling water, stir until perfectly  
smooth,  
adding to milk just before taking from fire. Serve with sugar and cream.  
2
Rebecca Pudding  
cups scalded milk  
4
1
1
1
/4 teaspoon salt  
/2 cup corn−starch  
1
/2 cup cold milk  
/4 cup sugar  
1
teaspoon vanilla  
Whites 3 eggs  
Mix corn−starch, sugar, and salt, dilute with cold milk, add to scalded milk, stirring  
constantly  
until mixture thickens, afterwards occasionally; cook fifteen minutes. Add flavoring and  
whites of  
eggs beaten stiff, mix thoroughly, mould, chill, and serve with Yellow Sauce I or II.  
3
Moulded Snow  
Make same as Rebecca Pudding, and serve with Chocolate Ice.  
Chapter XXV − COLD DESSERTS  
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