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 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup sugar
1 cup scalded milk
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
Melt butter, add flour, and gradually hot milk. Bring to boiling-point and pour on to yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, and mixed with sugar and salt; cool, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Turn into buttered pudding-dish, and bake from thirty to thirty-five minutes in slow oven; take from oven and serve at once, - if not served immediately it is sure to fall; serve with Creamy or Foamy Sauce.
Drain and reserve syrup from one can apricots and cut fruit into quarters, then put closely together on bottom of a buttered baking-dish. Pour over Custard Souffle mixture. Bake from thirty-five to forty minutes in a slow oven. Serve with apricot syrup and whipped cream sweetened and flavored with vanilla or vanilla ice cream. Canned peaches may be used in place of apricots.
Lemon Soufflé
Yolks 4 eggs
Grated rind and juice 1 lemon
1 cup sugar Whites 4 eggs
Beat yolks until thick and lemon-colored, add sugar gradually and continue beating, then add lemon rind and juice. Cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until dry; turn into buttered pudding-dish, set in pan of hot water, and bake thirty-five to forty minutes. Serve with or without sauce.
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
3/4 cup milk
1 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons hot water
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Melt the butter, add flour, and pour on gradually, while stirring constantly, milk; cook until boiling-point is reached. Melt chocolate in a small saucepan placed over hot water, add sugar and water, and stir until smooth. Combine mixtures, and add yolks of eggs well beaten; cool. Fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff, and add vanilla. Turn into a buttered baking-dish, and bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes. Serve with Cream Sauce I.
3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons bread flour 3/4 cup boiled coffee (Mocha) 1/4 cud cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Make and bake same as Chocolate Souffle. Serve with Mocha Sauce. Mix yolks two eggs, one-fourth cup sugar, and a few grains salt; then add gradually one-half cup Mocha coffee infusion. Cook in double boiler until mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Strain, cool, and fold in one cup whipped cream.
3/4 cup fruit pulp, peach apricot, or quince
Whites 3 eggs Sugar
Few grains salt
Rub fruit through sieve; if canned fruit is used, first drain from syrup. Heat, and sweeten if needed; beat whites of eggs until stiff, add gradually hot fruit pulp, and salt, and continue beating; turn into buttered and sugared individual moulds, having them three-fourths full; set moulds in pan of hot water and bake in slow oven until firm, which may be determined by pressing with finger; serve with Sabyon Sauce.
Spanish Soufflé
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup stale bread crumbs
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Melt butter, add crumbs, cook until slightly browned, stirring often; add milk and sugar, cook twenty minutes in double boiler; remove from fire, add unbeaten yolks of eggs, then cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and flavor. Bake same as Fruit Souffle.
 
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