Blanc Mange ("Shape")

FROM: The “Weis Recipe Outfit” Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.

Does anybody recall the infamous Science Fiction sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus with the tennis playing, carnivorous Blanc Mange? Photo: mail2pete

Blanc Mange ("Shape")...

2 cups milk

1/4 cup sugar

4 tablespoons cornstarch

3 eggs

1 cup Nectars (raisins)

1 teaspoon lemon extract

Scald 1 and 1/4 (?) cups milk (hint: cool the pan with cold water first) in double boiler. Mix sugar with cornstarch and blend with cold milk and egg yolks. Pour into scalded milk, and stir constantly until thick and smooth. Add raisins and cook 5 minutes. Remove from fire, add flavoring, pour over stiffly beaten egg whites. Blend carefully but thoroughly. Pour into a mold and chill. Unmold and serve with whipped cream. Recipe serves six.