Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie by Eliza Leslie
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Eat it with wine, sugar, and nutmeg. The whey, drained from the curd, is an excellent drink for invalids. A TRIFLE. A quart of cream. A quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, powdered. Half a pint of white wine and Half a gill of brandy mixed. Eight maccaroons, or more if you choose. Four small sponge-cakes or Naples biscuit. Two ounces of blanched sweet almonds, pounded in a mortar. One ounce of blanched bitter almonds or peach-kernels. The juice and grated peel of two lemons. A nutmeg, grated. A glass of noyau. A pint of rich baked custard, made of the yolks of eggs. Pound the sweet and bitter almonds to a smooth paste, adding a little rose-water as you pound them. Grate the yellow peels of the lemons, and squeeze the juice into a saucer. Break the sponge cake and maccaroons into small pieces, mix them with the almonds, and lay them in the bottom of a large glass bowl. Grate a nutmeg over them, and the juice and peel of the |
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