Orange Cream

1850

Preparation info
  • Yield: Approximately ½ Quarts ,

    8 to 10

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

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Ingredients

  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • ¼ cup

Method

Put the sugar, orange juice, lemon juice, and orange zest in a saucepan and boil until a thick syrup forms. The syrup must literally “explode” with orange flavor or the cream will be bland.

Bring the milk to a boil, then reduce the heat and dissolve the gelatin in it. Beat the eggs to a cream, and whisk them into the warm milk mixture. Strain the orange syrup and add it to the milk mixt