Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Floating Island. ✠

• 1 quart of milk.
• 5 eggs—whites and yolks beaten separately.
• 4 tablespoonfuls (heaping) white sugar.
• 2 teaspoonfuls extract bitter almond or vanilla.
• ½ cup currant jelly.

Beat the yolks well, stir in the sugar, and add the hot, not boiling milk, a little at a time. Boil until it begins to thicken. When cool, flavor and pour into a glass dish, first stirring it up well. Heap upon it a méringue of the whites into which you have beaten, gradually, half a cup of currant, cranberry, or other bright tart jelly. Dot with bits of jelly cut into rings or stars, or straight slips laid on in a pattern.