Prune Whip
Public Domain Recipes

Prune Whip

Ingredients

  • 1/3 pound prunes
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1/2 cup sugar

Directions

  1. Pick over and wash the prunes, then soak for several hours in cold water, enough to cover.
  2. Cook slowly until soft, about fifteen minutes.
  3. Rub through a strainer.
  4. Add sugar and lemon juice and cook five minutes; the mixture should be the consistency of marmalade.
  5. Beat the whites until stiff, add the prunes when cold, pile lightly into a buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes in a slow oven.
  6. Serve with cream.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: prune, lemon juice, egg white, sugar

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, oven, egg beater, stove

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