Raspberry and Currant Water Ice

Ingredients

• 1 pint fruit
• 0.5 lb. loaf sugar
• 0.5 pint water
• 1 egg white

Method

1. 1

   Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes to make a thick syrup.

2. 2

   Strain it, and add it, when cold, to the fruit which has been rubbed through a sieve.

3. 3

   Mix and add the egg white, stiffly beaten.

4. 4

   Freeze and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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