Mix half a pint of strong coffee with one pint of custard, sweeten with five ounces of sugar, let it get cold, then freeze in the usual way. Make a wall of ice-cream in a glass dish, fill up the middle with mixed fruit and put whipped cream on top.
Take half a tin of tomatoes, place in saucepan with a tablespoon of dried vegetables, a bay leaf, salt, and pepper. Boil for fifteen minutes. Add half an once of dissolved gelatine, stir in well, then strain and put into small cups or a mould. This is very good served with cold meat.
Dissolve one pound of sugar in three gills of water, add the juice of two oranges and two lemons, boil about ten minutes.Mix four ounces of cornflour with a little water,and add it to the juice; bring to boil, and pour into mould, and leave in a cool place till set.
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