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the fruit--strain it, and fill your glasses, leaving out a part to whip into
froth for the top.
TEA CREAM.
PUT one ounce of the best tea in a pitcher, pour on it a table spoonful of
water, and let it stand an hour to soften the leaves; then put to it a quart of
boiling cream, cover it close, and in half an hour strain it; add four
tea-spoonsful of a strong infusion of rennet in water, stir it, and set it on
some hot ashes, and cover it; when you find by cooling a little of it, that it
will jelly, pour it into glasses, and garnish with thin bits of preserved fruit.
SAGO CREAM.
WASH the sago clean, and put it on the fire with a stick of cinnamon, and as
much water as will boil it thick and soft; take out the cinnamon, and add rich
boiled custard till it is of a proper thickness; sweeten it, and serve in
glasses or cups, with grated nutmeg on the top.
BARLEY CREAM
Is made the same way--you may add a little white wine to both; it will give an
agreeable flavour.
GOOSEBERRY FOOL.
PICK the stems and blossoms from two quarts of green gooseberries; put them in a
stew pan, with their weight in loaf sugar, and a very little water--when
sufficiently stewed, pass the pulp through a sieve; and
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