Fruit Blanc-mange
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the juice of strawberries or raspberries with water.
Strain the mixture and stir in enough cornstarch to thicken it.
Pour the mixture into a large dish and let it cool.
Once cool, turn it out onto a plate and insert long, narrow slices of sweet almonds for decoration.
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.
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