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, packing the freezer in fresh ice.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Four lemons, one-half pound of sugar, one and one-half pint of boiling water. Grate the rind from the lemons into a bowl, squeeze upon this the juice, add to this the sugar and pour over all the boiling water, stirring the mixture meantime until thoroughly blended. Allow the preparation to stand until quite cold, after which strain it through a horse-hair sieve or a piece of muslin and throwing it into a freezer, freeze until very hard ; then the freezer must be packed in fresh ice to keep its contents from melting, and the water ice should be served from this, as required. Note.— Lemon water ices should be tasted always before frozen in order that more sugar may be added to the preparation, if it be found not to have the desired sweetness. Strawberry Water Ice. — One pint of fresh strawberries, one and one-half pints of cold water, one-half of a lemon, three ounces of sugar, six drops of cochineal. Put the fruit upon a horse-hair sieve, sprinkle over it 172 ^CES, CREAMS AND JELUES, a little of the sugar and rub all through the sieve. Mix the cold water with this strawberry syrup, add the sugar, squeeze in the juice of the lemon, drop to. also the cochi- neal and stir them all well together ; pour the mixture into a freezer, freeze it until hard and pack the freezer in fresh ice to preserve its contents in a frozen condition until served. Iced Souffle. — ^Yolks of six eggs, whites of two eggs, one pint of milk, two ounces of sugar, one- half tea- spoonful of grated nutmeg, one pint of double cream. Beat the whites and yolks of eggs together, add to these the nutmeg and sugar and, heating the milk until almost at the boiling point, pour this over the mixture, stirring all together while pouring in the milk. Pour this into the saucepan in which the milk was boiled, and stir it over the fire until the eggs begin to thicken, but exercising great care that the milk does not again boil. Put the custard into a bowl and allow it to stand until quite cold ; then one-half pint of the cream should be stirred in and the whole be poured into a freezer and frozen until stiff enough to be conveniently moulded. Work the frozen custard into a pint and a half souf96 tin. Tie around the souffle tin a sheet of kitchen paper in such a manner as to increase the depth of the tin five or six inches. Whip the remaining cream to a stiff froth, pile this upon the top of the frozen custard, and setting the tin with its contents into a freezer, pile around this sufficient ice and rock salt to freeze the souffle. This should be transferred carefully, when frozen, to a silver souffl6 dish, or served in the tin in which it is pre- pared, with a napkin folded around the same. VANILLA ICE CREAM. 173 ICES, CREAMS AND JELLIES. CREAMS. StraiV'berry Ice Or^§m.— One pint of milk, four eggs, one and one-half pints of fresh strawberries, one quart of cream, one-half pound of sugar

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