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Vintage Ice-Box Cakes                               Chocolate Icebox Cake 1931

                                                               ·  2 cups cream
                                                               ·  1/3 cup sugar
          Vanilla Strawberry Ice Box Cake 1935                 ·  1 teaspoon vanilla

                                                               ·  2 squares chocolate, melted
          ·  2 cups whipping cream
          ·  1/2 cup powdered sugar                            ·  1/2 cup chopped nuts
          ·  Vanilla flavoring                                 ·  12 lady fingers
          ·  2 cups strawberries                               1.  Whip cream; add sugar, vanilla, melted choco-
                                                               late, and chopped nuts.
          ·  36 large vanilla wafers                           2.  Separate one dozen lady fingers and line a mold
          1.  Add sugar, flavoring extract and whip            with them.
          cream until stiff. Carefully fold in strawberries,   Fill with the whipped cream mixture and set in ice-
          cut in large pieces.                                 box for 3 1/2 hours.
          2.  Lay out bottom of oblong pan (10 inches by
          6 inches) with large vanilla wafers and add lay-
          er of filling. Place another layer of wafers and
          filling and top with wafers.                         Delicious Ice-Box Cake 1932
          3.  Decorate with strawberries and whipped           Chilling time: 12 to 24 hours
          cream.                                               Servings: 4 to 6
          Chill in refrigerator 4 to 6 hours. Serves six to    ·  1 package vanilla wafers (sixteen)
          eight.                                               ·  1/2 cup apple butter, orange marmalade or

                                                               strawberry jam
          Graham Cracker Crumb in Icebox Pudding               ·  1 cup heavy cream, whipped
          1936                                                 1.  Fold apple butter, marmalade or jam into
                                                               whipped cream.
          ·  2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs                  2.  Arrange four wafers on bottom of square mold;
          ·  1 large can crushed pineapple                     spread with cream; cover with four wafers; again
          ·  1/2 pound marshmallows                            spread with cream; cover with wafers and spread
          ·  1/2 cup chopped dates                             with cream; put four remaining wafers over cream
                                                               and press lightly together.
          ·  1 1/2 dozen lady fingers                          3.  Chill thoroughly.
          ·  1 cup whipping cream                              At dessert time, lift to a service plate; cut diagonally
          ·  4 tablespoons powdered sugar                      at table and serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.
          ·  Few drops vanilla                                 Coffee, of course.
          1.  Crush graham crackers with rolling pin on
          molding board. It will take about one-half
          pound.
          2.  Combine with pineapple pulp and juice,
          marshmallows cut in quarters, and dates. Mix
          well.
          3.  Line a brick shaped or round pan with
          heavy waxed paper.
          4.  Line prepared pan with split lady fingers,
          rounded side out. Fill with graham mixture and
          cover top with split lady fingers rounded side
          out.
          5.  Cover with waxed paper and let stand in the
          ice box several hours or overnight.
          Turn out on a platter and serve with cream
          whipped and sweetened with powdered sugar
          and flavored with vanilla.
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