Cream Whips
Sweeten thin cream, flavor with vanilla, brandy, or wine, then whip; half fill frappé glasses with any preserve, pile on lightly the whip.
Sautéd Pears with Chocolate Sauce
Pare four Bartlett pears, cut in fourths lengthwise, and sauté in butter until browned. Canned pears drained from their syrup may be used in place of fresh fruit. Arrange in serving dish and pour over
Chocolate Sauce. Cook two ounces sweet chocolate, one tablespoon sugar, and one and one-fourth cups milk in double boiler five minutes; then add one teaspoon arrow-*root mixed with one-fourth cup cream and a few grains salt, and cook ten minutes. Melt one and one-half tablespoons butter, add one-fourth cup powdered sugar, and cook until well caramelized, stirring constantly. Add to first mixture, and flavor with one-half teaspoon vanilla. Chill thoroughly.
Lemon Jelly
1/2 box gelatine or
2 tablespoons granulated gelatine
1/2 cup cold water
2-1/2 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice
Soak gelatine twenty minutes in cold water, dissolve in boiling water, strain, and add to sugar and lemon juice. Turn into mould, and chill.
Orange Jelly
1/2 box gelatine or
2 tablespoons granulated gelatine
1/2 cup cold water
1-1/2 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar
1-1/2 cups orange juice
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Make same as Lemon Jelly.
To Remove Juice from Oranges. Cut fruit in halves crosswise, remove with spoon pulp and juice from sections, and strain through double cheese-cloth; or use a glass lemon squeezer.
