MARION SAMBOURNE’S DIARY 1883 Notes in front of diary: Mrs Bosanquet’s Chocolate Cake. Work the whole of 5 eggs with ½ lb of fine sugar till they are nearly white. Grate 6 oz of chocolate & 3 oz of finely chopped almonds, add them to the eggs saving a few of the almonds to sprinkle in a plain pipe mould. Then have 6 oz of clarified butter just warmed to an oil & a ¼ lb of fine flour & add just some butter & then flour till it is all used up to the other ingredients & bake about ¾ of an hour in not too quick an oven. The centre can be filled or not with whipped cream, or bake in a plain mould without the pipe.
Jelly or Great Debility(?) 2 oz of isinglass. 2 oz gum Arabic. 3 oz white sugar. ½ bot. port wine. These ingredients to be boiled over a slow fire till the whole is dissolved. Pour it into a basin or jar. Two teaspoonfuls in a teacup dissolve, take this quickly twice a day.
Lobster à la Murphy. Cut the rind of a lemon into thin strips. The juices, a pat of butter, a gill of cream. Stir over fire till well mixed. Have ready the meat of a lobster add the sauce season to taste & serve hot.
Cold lemon pud. 5 yolks of eggs well beaten with ¼ lb of sifted sugar, the juice of a lemon & ½ the rind of one grated. A little vanilla. Dissolve ½ an oz of isinglass in ½ a teacup of water. Strain it & stir it quickly with the eggs & sugar add the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Put into a shape & turn out.
Raspberry fool, strawberry do.
Crème de volaille with curry in, served on round low mound of rice, jelly gravy in centre.
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