This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Cold charlottes differ from hot charlottes in that whipped cream enters into their composition. There is usually an outer case or covering and a centre of Bavarian cream, ivory jellv, or simply whipped cream, sweetened and flavored, or whipped cream with whipped whites of eggs. When the case is made of lady-fingers, narrow slices of cake, iced alternately in different colors, macaroons, gauffres, wafers, etc., the name Charlotte Russe is applied to the dessert. When the case is made of fruits, or wine jelly, holding strawberries, sections of orange, or other fruit, a macedoine or Celestine charlotte results. When the charlottes have an outer case (a compound cream lining), with a different colored cream or fruit centre, a Charlotte à Surprise is produced.
 
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