To Make Irish Butter

From Miss Wettin’s Manuscript, 18th Century

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in

By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Cream (or evaporated milk) 1 pint
  • eggs 3 (whites only)
  • isinglass

Method

  1. Steep the isinglass in hot water for 15 minutes.
  2. Then add it to the cream.
  3. And boil gently until it is half dissolved.
  4. Colour it with saffron.
  5. Add the orange flower water.
  6. Sweeten it to taste.
  7. Beat in the whites of eggs.
  8. And heat it up again till all the isinglass is dissolved.
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