This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
3 cups milk 1 1/2 cups sugar Yolks 5 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt 1 pint thin cream 1/4 cup pineapple syrup
1 1/2 cups prepared French chestnuts
Make custard of first four ingredients, strain, cool, add cream, pineapple syrup, and chestnuts; then freeze. To prepare chestnuts, shell, cook in boiling water until soft, and force through a strainer. Line a two-quart melon mould with part of mixture; to remainder add one-half cup candied fruit cut in small pieces, one-quarter cup Sultana raisins, and eight chestnuts broken in pieces, first soaked several hours in Maraschino syrup. Fill mould, cover, pack in salt and ice, and let stand two hours. Serve with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored with Maraschino syrup.
Whites 6 eggs
6 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 quart brick of ice cream Thin sheet sponge cake
Make meringue of eggs and sugar as in Meringue I, cover a board with white paper, lay on sponge cake, turn ice cream on cake (which should extend one-half inch beyond cream), cover with meringue, and spread smoothly. Place on oven grate and brown quickly in hot oven. The board, paper, cake, and meringue are poor conductors of heat, and prevent the cream from melting. Slip from paper on ice cream platter.
2 cups milk 2/3 cup raisins 1 cup sugar l egg
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 quart thin cream
1/2 cup almonds
1/2 cup candied pineapple
1/3 cup Canton ginger
3 tablespoons wine
Scald raisins in milk fifteen minutes, strain, make custard of milk, egg, sugar, flour, and salt; strain, cool, add pineapple, ginger cut in small pieces, nuts finely chopped, wine, and cream; then freeze. The raisins should re rinsed and saved for a pudding.
2 1/2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoonful salt
2 eggs
1 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup rum
1 cup candied fruit, cherries, pineapples, pears, and apricots
Cut fruit in small pieces, and soak two or three hours in brandy to cover, which prevents fruit from freezing; make a custard of milk, sugar, salt, and eggs; strain, cool, add cream and rum, then freeze. Fill a brick mould with alternate layers of the cream and fruit; pack in salt and ice and let stand two hours.
1 quart cream 3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup rum
1 cup candied fruit
Cut fruit in pieces, and soak several hours in brandy to cover. Mix cream, sugar, and rum, then freeze. Line a two-quart melon mould with lady fingers, crust side down; fill with alternate layers of the cream and fruit, cover, pack in salt and ice, and let stand two hours. Brandied peaches cut in pieces, with some of their syrup added, greatly improve the pudding.
2 cups milk 3/4 cup sugar Yolks 6 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups cream 2 tablespoons rum
1 tablespoon brandy
Make a custard of first four ingredients; strain, cool, add cream, and freeze to a mush. Add rum and brandy, and finish the freezing.
Prepare same as Frozen Tom and Jerry. Freeze to a mush, add one cup mixed fruit which has been soaked in brandy to cover for twelve hours, using glace cherries, Sultana raisins, sliced citron, and candied pineapple; then finish freezing. Serve in small beer jugs, and garnish with cream, whipped, sweetened, and flavored.
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup Formosa tea infusion
1/3 cup rum 1 quart cream
Mix ingredients, and freeze to a mush. Serve in frappé glasses.
Delmonico Ice Cream -with Angel Food
2 cups milk 3/4 cup sugar Yolks 7 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups thin cream 1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon
Make custard of milk, sugar, eggs, and salt; cool, strain, and flavor; whip cream, remove whip; there should be two quarts; add to custard, and freeze. Serve plain or with Angel Food.
Whites 3 eggs
1/2, cup powdered sugar
1 quart cream whip 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Beat eggs until stiff, fold in sugar, cream whip, and flavoring; line a mould with Delmonico Ice Cream, fill with the mixture, cover, pack in salt and ice, and let stand two hours.
1 1/2 cups orange juice 1/4 cup lemon juice Sugar
1 pint heavy cream 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/2 tablespoon vanilla
2/3 cup chopped walnut meats
Mix fruit juices and sweeten to taste. Turn mixture in brick mould. Whip cream, and add sugar, vanilla, and nut meats; pour over the first mixture to overflow mould; cover with buttered paper, fit on cover, pack in salt and ice, and let stand three hours.
Sultana Roll -with Claret Sauce
Line one-pound baking-powder boxes with Pistachio Ice Cream; sprinkle with Sultana raisins which have been soaked one hour in brandy; fill centres with Vanilla Ice Cream or whipped cream, sweetened, and flavored with vanilla; cover with Pistachio Ice Cream; pack in salt and ice, and let stand one and one-half hours.
 
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