Dissolve an ounce of isinglass in a cup of boiling water, take off the scum, and drain through a coarse cloth. Jellies, candies, and blanc mange should be done in brass, and stirred with silver.
Blanc Mange.
A pint of cream, and a quart of boiled milk.
An ounce and a half of clarified isinglass, stirred into the milk. Sugar to your taste.
A teaspoonful of fine salt.
Flavor with lemon, or orange, or rose water.
Let it boil, stirring it well, then strain into moulds.
Three ounces of almonds pounded to a paste and added while boiling, is an improvement. Or filberts, or hickory-nuts, can be skinned and used thus.
It can be flavored by boiling in it a vanilla bean, or a stick of cinnamon. Save the bean to use again.