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The "Queen" cookery books: Ices

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Claret Cup {Soyer’s). — Peel two lemons very thinly, and lay the peel in a basin ; add four table- spoonfuls of caster sugar, the juice of four lemons, a few slices of cucumber (leave the peel on), pour on to this two bottles each of soda water and claret, well iced, one bottle of iced chamj)agne, and stir up well. (With all due deference to so great an authority, this is even nicer if the yellow part of the lemons be rubbed off on to the sugar ; moreover, the dii-ections as to making this in a bowl half buried in ice must be strictly observed.) Put into a basin two bottles of good claret, half a teaspoonful of violet syrup, and a gill of pale brandy ; when this is all icy cold, stir in two bottles of well-iced soda or potash water and a full gill of raspberry water ice, and serve. {Simple). — Put into a jug a bottle of claret with sufficient sugar to sweeten it, a strip or two of lemon peel, and a slice or so of cucumber, and, when icy cold, pour on to it two bottles of iced soda water, and use. Chablis Cup. — Pub the yellow part of a quarter of a lemon off on four or five lumps of sugar and put these in a basin with a very thin shoe of lemon peel and a gill of boiling water ; let it all stand for half an hour, then add to it a bottle of chablis, a wine- glassful of sherry, half a pint of water, and a small spray of lemon verbena ; mix this all well and let it cit embedded in ice for fully half an hour, then strain it, add a bottle of iced soda water, and use. ICED UEINKS. 137 Tennis Gup. — Embed a large bowl in a tub of ice, and salt and put into it eight tablespoonfuls of caster sugar, the finely peeled rind of two and the juice of four lemons, two wineglassfuls of brandy, the same of ginger syrup, and, when the sugar is melted, pour to it foul’ bottles of soda water Claret Cup (Soyer’s) and throw in a spray or two of borage and the same of lemon- scented verbena. Ice well, and serve in small glasses with a toddy ladle. Pineapple Oitp.— Embed a basin or jug in ice as before, and put into it two slices of pineapjile, with two teaspoonfuls of caster sugar, poiu’ on to this two bottles of good sound dinner claret, with a couple of lumps of ice the size of a man’s fist ; when wanted add a full quart bottle of well-iced, sparkling MoseUe, and serve. Marsala Cup. — Pour into a well-iced basin one bottle of Marsala, one of iced soda water, a wine- glassful of lemon juice, the rind of a lemon rubbed off on some lumps of sugar, a bunch of borage, or a slice or two of cucumber, and ice and sugar to taste. If cucumber is used for this float some strawberries on the top. Kalteschale.—The^e are easdy made by pulpinor any fruit to taste, and to this puree put a bottle of light white wine (Rhenish for choice, as this is a German drink), add a squeeze of lemon juice, sugai to taste, and a garnish of any fruit similar to that o which the puree is made ; ice well. A liqueur-glass- ful of liqueur, or rather more of liqueur syrup), is a great addition. As to the quantity of fruit, that de|)onds a good deal on the fruit itself. lor 138 ICES. instance, if you use wild strawberries (quite the nicest halteschale) a quart of the fruit is needed, whereas six good apricots, stewed till tender enough to pulp, will, with the addition of two raw ones cut up as garnish with the blanched kernels, be ample for the same quantity of ■v\dne.