1219. Crême à la Vanille Sauce.
—Boil one pint of cold milk in a saucepan; put three egg yolks into a small vessel with two ounces of powdered sugar, one ounce of flour, and a piece of vanilla-bean one inch long. Beat well together with a wire whip for two minutes. Pour this into the boiling milk. Stir again briskly with the whip until it boils once more; remove from the fire, and add half a gill of maraschino. Beat again for one minute, and pour the cream nicely over the cake before sending to the table.
1220. Home-made Cake.
—Put into a bowl half a pound of sugar and half a pound of good butter. Mix thoroughly with the hand for fifteen minutes. Break four eggs, leaving the whites in a basin, and drop the yolks in with the butter and sugar. Mix again. Now beat the whites to a froth and add them to the other ingredients. Grate in half a saltspoonful of nutmeg; add half a pound of flour; mix well again; stir in two ounces of well-cleansed currants ([No. 1080]), and two ounces of peeled sweet almonds ([No. 1207]) cut into small pieces. Mingle all well together with the hand for five minutes, and with the other hand drop in one gill of brandy. Have a round cake-mold holding two quarts; butter it lightly with a hair brush, and sprinkle in a little sugar. Drop a third of the preparation into the mold; spread over it two ounces of candied orange, shred into thin slices; then add half of the remaining preparation; spread on top of it two ounces of shred, candied citron, and fill the mold with the rest. Lay a piece of brown paper over, and put the mold into a very moderate oven for two hours. Let it get a good golden color. Remove, and cool off in the mold, which will take about three hours. Remove the cake by turning it bottom up. Arrange a lace paper on a dessert-dish. Glaze the cake with a glace à l’eau ([No. 1197]), dress it on the dish, and decorate the top and border tastefully with assorted candied fruits.
1221. Plain Galette.
—Knead well and finely together in a vessel one pound of good flour with six ounces of fresh butter, one gill of cold water, and a saltspoonful of salt. After ten minutes, when it becomes soft, roll it into a flat, circular cake—using a rolling-pin, well floured, to prevent its adhering. Place it in a baking-pan. Bake in a very slow oven for thirty-five minutes. When a nice light color, remove and let it cool. Serve it on a dessert-dish, over a folded napkin.
1222. Rice Cake.
—Boil two ounces of rice for twenty-five minutes. When well done, drain, and add to it a short paste, made of half a pound of flour, six ounces of butter, two egg-whites, and half a saltspoonful of salt. Pound the paste and rice well together in a mortar, and have a baking-pan covered with a sheet of buttered paper; lay the paste on top, spreading it out about six inches square. Put it in the oven for twenty minutes. Remove it, detach it from the paper, lay it on a dessert-dish, with a folded napkin, and serve hot.
Vermicelli cake is prepared the same way, only the vermicelli should not cook longer than twelve minutes.