Grape Juice Parfait Recipe

Same as white parfait, after substituting one third cup of grape juice for the boiling water and adding half a cup of grape juice and the juice of half a lemon to the cream before whipping.

Sunshine Parfait Recipe

1 cup of sugar. 1 tablespoonful of orange extract. 1/4 cup of boiling water. 1 pint of double cream. The yolks of three eggs.

Boil the sugar and water to the thread degree and pour in a fine stream on to the beaten yolks of the eggs; return to the fire and cook over hot water until the mixture coats the spoon; beat until cold and add the flavor and the cream beaten solid. Let stand packed in ice and salt about two hours after moulding.

Coffee Parfait Recipe

1 cup of sugar. 1 pint of double cream. 1/4 cup of clear black coffee. 1/4 cup of clear black coffee. The yolks of three eggs.

See Sunshine Parfait; add the second fourth cup of coffee to the cream before whipping.

Chocolate Parfait Recipe

Add two or three ounces of melted chocolate to the syrup for Sunshine Parfait, before adding it to the yolks of eggs, and flavor with vanilla. A cup of French fruit, cut small, steeped in syrup and drained and then sprinkled into the mixture as it is put into the mould improves this.

Ginger Parfait Recipe

1 cup of sugar. 3/4 cup of preserved ginger (root and syrup). 1/4 cup of water. The whites of two eggs. 1 pint of double cream. Juice of a lemon.

Make an Italian meringue (boiled frosting) with the sugar and water cooked to the thread degree, 238°Fahr., and the whites of eggs. When cold add the ginger, pounded in a mortar and sifted, and lemon juice to taste, then fold in the whipped cream; turn into a mould prepared as usual and let stand buried in equal measures of ice and salt three or four hours.

Maple Parfait Recipe

1 cup of hot maple syrup. 1 pint of double cream. The yolks of four eggs.

Pour the hot syrup, without cooking to the thread stage, on to the beaten yolks of the eggs; return to the fire and cook until the mixture coats the spoon; beat until cold and finish as usual. The parfaits are very rich forms of ices.