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Salted Almond Chocolate Cake with Violets

Prep Time25 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time45 mins
Course: Dessert
Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

  • 1 cupful molasses
  • 1 teaspoonful ginger
  • 1 teaspoonful cloves
  • 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
  • teaspoonful nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoonful egg beaten light
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cupful sour milk
  • 1 teaspoonful baking soda
  • 2 cupfuls flour

Instructions

  • Put half the cream and half the sugar in a double boiler over the fire; when the sugar is dissolved, stand it aside until cold. Pare and grate the pineapple, add the remaining half of the sugar and stand it aside.
  • Mash the raspberries; add half the sugar and the lemon juice. Put the remaining sugar and half the cream in a double boiler; stir until the sugar is dissolved, and stand aside to cool; when cold, add the remaining cream, turn the mixture into the freezer, and stir until partly frozen. Remove the lid and add the mashed raspberries, and stir again for five or ten minutes until the mixture is sufficiently hard to repack.
  • Make precisely the same as raspberry ice cream, substituting one quart of strawberries for the raspberrries.
  • When the cream is cold, add the remaining cream, and partly freeze. Then add the lemon juice to the pineapple and add it to the frozen cream; turn the freezer five minutes longer, and repack.
  • Put the sugar and half the cream over the fire in a double boiler; when the sugar is dissolved, stand it aside to cool. When cold, add the remaining cream, the walnuts, chopped, and the flavoring, and freeze.
  • Stir over the fire for a minute, take from the fire, add the vanilla, and, when cold, add the cream, and freeze.

Notes

For the topping, I simmered down some rhubarb with fresh strawberries, sugar, a dash of water, and the husk of the vanilla bean pod that was left after I scraped it out. This made the most refreshing & tangy syrup with a wonderfully sweet but not overly so flavor that only vanilla can bring.
Tips: Beat the sugar and the yolks of the eggs until light, add the well-beaten whites, and pour into them the coffee, boiling hot. Stir over the fire for a minute, take from the fire, add the vanilla, and, when cold, add the cream, and freeze.