Lemon Water Ice

Ingredients

• Four lemons
• one half pound of sugar
• one and one-half pint of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Grate the rind from the lemons into a bowl, squeeze the juice, add sugar, and pour boiling water over it, stirring until blended.

2. 2

   Allow to cool, strain, and freeze until hard.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON WATER ICE — STRAWBERRY WATER ICE. 183 come quite cold, and while awaiting this, pour boiling water over the almonds to blanch them, remove their skins, and chop them very finely ; cut the limes each into quarters, and the citron into very small thin pieces; add all these to- gether with the cherries and raisins to the custard when it becomes cold, pour in upon them the cream, and stirring all well together, throw the pudding into the freezer and allow it to freeze until it is firm enough to mould ; then it should be firmly worked into a quart mould, which must have been wet with cold water to keep the mixture from sticking, and the mould packed into ice for one hour, that the pudding may form and firm. Lemon Water Ice. — Four lemons, one half pound of sugar, one and one-half pint of boiling water

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