Chapter XX

Entremets (Sweets)

Pastry, Confectionery, and Ices are so closely allied to Cookery, and they are so surely its complements, that it is impossible to omit them when dealing with Entremets, even though the latter be limited to the kind proper to the kitchen.

However, these subjects, which could supply matter for voluminous works, are too complex for it to be possible to cope thoroughly with them here.

I shall therefore confine myself to the expounding of their fundamental principles and the essential operations relating thereto, a knowledge of which is absolutely necessary for the successful preparation of Kitchen Entremets and Ices. The directions given hereafter are certainly too inadequate to convert an ordinary cook into a pastry-cook, a confectioner, or a “glacier”; but they will at least admit of his carrying out a complete dinner, if the necessity so to do should occur.

Elementary Preparations of Pastry which may be Applied to Entremets

The Pastes

The Preparation and Cooking of Various Pastry Crusts used in Cookery

Various Custards

    Hot Custards

    Cold Custards

    Various Preparations for Entremets

    Hot Sauces for Entremets

    Hot Sweets

      Fritters

      The numerous fritter recipes for sweets may all be grouped into five leading classes, viz.:—

      (1) Fruit fritters.

      (2) Custard fritters.

      (3) Viennese fritters.

      (4) Souffléd fritters.

      (5) Sundry other fritters which are more or less like the four former ones without entirely resembling them.

      Souffléd Fritters

      Various Fritters

      Charlottes

      Pancakes

      Croquettes

      Crusts

      Omelets

      Sweet omelets may be divided into four distinct classes, which are:—

      • 1. Liqueur omelets.
      • 2. Jam omelets.
      • 3. Souffléd omelets.
      • 4. Surprise omelets.

        Omelets with Liqueur

        Jam Omelets

        Souffléd Omelets

        Surprise Omelets

        Pannequets

        Puddings with Cream

        English Fruit Puddings

        Bread Puddings

        Paste Puddings

        Souffléd Puddings

        Timbales

        Hot Fruit Entremets

        Pine-apple (Ananas)

        Bananas (Bananes)

        Cherries (Cerises)

        Oranges and Tangerines (Oranges et Mandarines)

        Peaches (Pêches)

        Pears (Poires)

        Apples (Pommes)

        Various Hot Entremets

        Cold Sweets

        Bavarois

        These are of two kinds:—

        (1) Bavarois with cream, and (2) Bavarois with fruit.

        Charlottes

        Cold Creams with a Whisked-Cream Base

        Cold Fruit Entremets

          Apricots (Abricots)

          Pine-apple (Ananas)

          Cherries (Cerises)

          Strawberries (Fraises)

          Gooseberries (Groseilles vertes)

          Tangerines (Mandarines)

          Oranges

          Peaches and Nectarines (Pêches et Nectarines)

          As nectarines may be prepared after the same recipes as peaches, there is no need to give special recipes for the former.

          Pears (Poires)

          Apples

          Various Cold Sweets (Entremets)