Strawberry Float

Ingredients

• 
  1 pint of strawberries 
• 2 eggs 
• 2 cups of pulverized sugar
• 1 pint of milk
• Vanilla flavoring 

Directions

Cream 

1. Crush the berries.
2. Separate the whites of the eggs from the yolks.
3. Beat the former (whites) to a stiff dry froth.
4. Add the sugar.
5. Put in crushed berries gradually.
6. Beat until the whole is a stiff pile of rosy cream.
7. Place in glass dish and set on ice.

Sauce 

1. Beat the yolks of the eggs in half a cupful of the mil.
2. Place remainder of milk on the stove in a pan set in another containing boiling water.
3. When the milk is hot add sugar, eggs and vanilla to taste.
4. Set on ice to cool.
5. Sauce is to be poured in serving about the frothy berries. 

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Renee Glaser
Louisiana Anthology
March 16, 2022