Southern Whip

An elegant, old fashioned dessert for grownups from the Southern chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 orange, juice of
• 1  orange, rind of
• 1⁄2 pint  whipping cream
• 1⁄2 cup sherry wine
• 3  egg whites, only (at room temperature)

Directions

1. Mix sugar and orange juice together and pour over orange peel.
2. Crush peel in juice with a wooden spoon and let stand one hour; strain.
3. Whip egg whites to stiff peaks; whip cream to soft peaks.
4. Add strained juice and sherry wine to whipped cream; fold in whipped egg whites.
5. Serve at once in chilled glasses.