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Dainty Dessert

A dessert of whipped cream folded with fresh fruit, served in pie crust, orange peel, or biscuits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Dainty Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fold the crushed or beaten fresh fruit into the whipped cream.

  2. Serve in a well-baked pie crust, half peel of oranges, or in biscuits.

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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What each ingredient does

Whipped cream
Adds airy volume and a light, creamy texture to the mousse.
Fresh fruit
Supplies flavour and moisture, and its crushed or beaten pulp gives the mousse body.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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