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Mi Lle- Fruit Ice Cream

From The ice book (1844).

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A historical recipe

The ice book, by Thomas Masters and University of Leeds. Library (1844).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. one pint of cream
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. one glass of wine
  4. one glass of grape syrup
  5. a pound of preserved fruits

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take the juice of two lemons, one pint of cream, half a pound of sugar, one glass of wine, one glass of grape syrup ;
  2. mix ;
  3. freeze ;
  4. cut one quarter of a pound of preserved fruits, as for Nesselrode ;
  5. mix them well with the ice, and place it in a mould.
  6. One quart.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The ice book (1844), printed page 89, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21529528

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.