Sherbet

Ingredients

• a bottle of the best Cognac brandy
• about three-quarters of a pound of sugar
• each quart of water
• a table-spoonful of rice
• the fruit

Method

1. 1

   Pour a very small quantity of boiling water and immediately squeeze the juice of the fruit, followed by a little more hot water.

2. 2

   Boil a tablespoonful of rice in each quart of water.

3. 3

   Incorporate well and adjust the sweetness or acidity as needed.

4. 4

   If necessary, strain using a lawn sieve and add orange or lemon rind for appearance.

5. 5

   Add Cognac brandy to taste.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1403. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a table-spoonful of rice should be boiled in each quart of water ; it imparts a softness almost equal to jelly. Incorporate the whole well together with a punch ladle ; and, putting a little of the sherbet thus composed, try its richness and flavour by the palate. If the fruit be good, a practised punch-maker will find httle which requires to be regulated, and that little can soon be adjustedby supply- ing the aqueous, saccharine, or acid deficien- cies, so as to produce a luscious and rich- bodied sherbet, fit for the reception of the spirit which is to give it animation. If strain- hit/ should be found necessary, this is the period for using a lawn sieve, through which a little more hot water may afterwards be passed; and a few parings of the orange or lemon-rind are generally considered as having^ an agreeable appearance floating on the bowl. The sherbet being thus prepared, to make it into genuine British punch, spirit should be added, in the proportions of a bottle of the best Cognac brandy ; the entire strength or weak- ness may be suited to the general inclination of the company for which it is prepared. The above quantity of fruit, with about three- quarters of a pound of suga

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