This section is from the book "The Institute Cook Book", by Helen Cramp. Also available from Amazon: The Institute Cook Book.
½ box or 2 tablespoons gelatine 1 pint milk Yolks of 7 eggs
5 tablespoons powdered sugar 1 cup milk 1 cup rich cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Dissolve the gelatine in the pint of milk and stir over the fire until thoroughly hot; then remove from the fire. Beat the yolks of the eggs until light; add the sugar and more milk; stir well; add the hot milk and gelatine. When thoroughly mixed stir in the cream; flavor and add more sugar if desired. Return to the fire; stir until the custard thickens a little; pour into a wet mold and when cool stand on the ice until serving time.
1 pint milk
1 egg
Sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup thick cream
¼ box or 1 tablespoon gelatine ¼ cup water English walnuts Candied cherries Lady fingers
Make a custard of the milk and egg, sweetening to taste and flavoring with vanilla; to this add the cream, whipped, and the gelatine, dissolved in the water. Add chopped walnuts and cherries and turn into a mold lined with lady fingers. Stand aside for several hours before serving.
⅓ cup rice ½ cup milk 1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon gelatine 1 tablespoon cold water 1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup thick cream
Clean the rice and cook it in a little water for five minutes; drain thoroughly; then cook with the milk for one hour, using a double boiler. Set the pan in cold water; add the sugar and the gelatine which has been previously soaked in the cold water. When thoroughly cold add the cream, whipped, and the vanilla.
¼ cup cold water 1 tablespoon gelatine ¼ cup boiling water ½ cup sugar
1 pint whipped cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 6 maraschino cherries 1 dozen lady fingers
Soak the gelatine in the cold water; add the hot water; stir until dissolved; then add the sugar. As soon as this is cool but not cold whip it into the cream which has already been whipped; flavor with vanilla and chopped cherries and turn into a bowl lined with halves of lady fingers.
½ box or 2 tablespoons gelatine 1/2 cup cold water 1 cup boiling water
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Whites of 2 eggs
Candied Cherries
Soak the gelatine in the cold water; pour over it the boiling water; add the sugar and the vanilla. When this begins to congeal add the unbeaten whites of eggs; beat until white and frothy; fill glasses and place a candied cherry on top of each. Serve with cream or with custard sauce.
1 pound prunes Whites of 2 eggs
Sugar to taste 1 tablespoon pulverized sugar
Wash the prunes thoroughly and soak them over night. In the morning cook until tender in the water in which they have soaked; remove the stones; chop fine and sweeten to taste. Beat the eggs; add the powdered sugar, then the prunes. Beat thoroughly and stand on the ice to chill. Serve in individual glasses or paper cases with whipped cream or custard sauce.
 
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