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Mousse a LA Oannelle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. This is prepared in the same manner^ only substituting cinnamon for vanilla. Two drqps of the essence will be enough for a pint of cream.

  2. MOUSSE A l'aIOS.

  3. Put into a pan^ with a cover, a spoonful of aniseed and a pint of cream; put this into a bain maree of boiling water, and take it off the fire; let it infuse two hours, then strain the cream through a tamis; let it cool, sweeten it, and whip the cream, as before directed, to a mousse.

  4. MOUSSE A l'aMBEEGBIS.

  5. A small piece of ambergris will flavour a pint of cream, or two drops of the essence will pro- duce the same effect ; put it to the cream, add sugar to taste, and whip it as before.

By Frances Crawford. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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