Mousse Recipe

1 pint of double cream. 1 cup of sherry wine, or 1 cup of grape or other fruit juice, or 1/2 cup of clear black coffee. 3/4 cup of powdered sugar. 1/4 teaspoonful of salt

Add the salt, sugar and flavoring to the cream and beat until solid to the bottom of the bowl; turn into a chilled mould and let stand packed in equal parts of ice and salt about three hours.

When the flavoring, as fruit pulp and juice, coffee, etc., would dilute the cream too much, as when the whip from the single cream is used, a teaspoonful of gelatine, softened in two or three tablespoonfuls of cold water and melted over hot water, may be added to the liquid. When the mixture begins to thicken fold the cream into it. If too large a proportion of gelatine be used, the mixture will not freeze readily, if at all. Such mixtures are in reality Bavarian creams.

Chestnut Mousse Recipe

1 cup of chestnut purée. 1/2 cup of candied cherries. 2/3 cup of sugar. 1 pint of double cream. 1 tablespoonful, scant, of vanilla extract.

Dissolve the sugar in the purée while it is hot; when cold add the vanilla and the cherries cut in halves. (Cook the cherries in syrup to cover and let cool in the syrup; drain before using.) Fold the cream, whipped stiff to the bottom of the bowl, into the chestnut mixture and turn into a mould; protect from salt as usual and let stand three or four hours packed in equal parts of ice and salt. Serve with whole chestnuts, cooked in lemon or vanilla syrup, or with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored, and candied cherries.

Pineapple Mousse With Orange Jelly Recipe

Decorate the bottom of a chilled mould with candied cherries. Cover with liquid orange jelly and set aside to become firm. Mix one pint of double cream, three fourths cup of sugar and a cup of pineapple juice scalded and cooled. Whip very light. Turn into the mould, filling to overflow. Press the cover down over paper and let stand buried in equal parts of ice and salt three or four hours. A teaspoonful of gelatine, softened in cold water, may be added to the hot pineapple juice if desired.