General Rules

A pint freezer may be used or the following utensils may be substituted: a half pound baking-powder can, a wooden spoon, a bowl or a small wooden tub to form outside of freezer. The tin can should be soldered to make it water tight.

The ice must be broken into fine pieces and mixed with the rock salt; use three times as much ice as salt for freezing. Pour the mixture which is to be frozen into the can. Surround the can with ice and salt, beat the mixture, and as it freezes scrape from the sides of the can with a wooden spoon; cover and turn can back and forth, scraping from the bottom and sides every five minutes. When it is frozen throughout, beat well, and pack in a smaller can or ice cream mould, if desired. Place a small strip of muslin dipped in melted butter around the outside of the cover, to keep out salt, and pack with ice and salt, covering the can completely. Be careful to drain off all the water if ice melts while the mould is standing in it; the ice cream should stand at least an hour before using. In serving, wash salt from the mould with cold water, wipe, remove cover and slip a knife around the inner edge of the mould, and invert the mould over serving plate.

Vanilla Ice Cream

1/2 c. cream. 1 tbsp. sugar.

1/2 tsp. vanilla.

Heat the cream and dissolve the sugar in it; when cool, add vanilla and freeze.

Caramel Ice Cream

1/2 c. cream tsp. sugar.

2 tbsp. caramel.

Heat the cream and dissolve the sugar and caramel in it; when cool, freeze.

Coffee Ice Cream

1/2 cream 1 1/2 sugar.

1/4 strong coffee.

Heat the cream and dissolve the sugar in it, add the coffee, and when cool, freeze.

Chocolate Ice Cream

1/2 cream. 1/4. chocolate.

1 tbsp. sugar. 3 drops vanilla.

Melt the chocolate over hot water, add the sugar and the hot cream gradually; when cool, add vanilla and freeze.

Strawberry Ice Cream

1/2 cream. 1/4. sugar.

1/2 strawberries.

Rinse hull and mash the strawberries, add the sugar, add cream and freeze.

Raspberry Ice Cream

1/2 cream. 1/4 c. sugar.

1/2 c. raspberries.

Strain the raspberries through cheesecloth; add the sugar to the juice, then add cream and freeze.

Peach Ice Cream

1/2 c. cream. 1/4 c. sugar.

1/3 c. peaches.

Mash the peaches, add sugar, add cream and freeze. If canned peaches are used, drain the fruit from the juice, and use less sugar. If peaches lack flavor, add one-half teaspoonful lemon juice.

Milk Sherbet

1/2 c. milk. 1/4 c. sugar.

1 tbsp. lemon juice.

Dissolve the sugar in the lemon juice, add the milk and freeze.

Orange Ice

1/2 c. water. 1/4 c. sugar. Rind of 1/4 orange.

1/2 c. orange juice (1 1/2 oranges). 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice.

Boil the water, sugar and rind of one-quarter orange for three minutes. Cool. Cut the top off the whole orange, and with a silver spoon remove the inside. When the syrup is cool, add the juice and strain through cheese-cloth. Freeze, and when ready to serve, fill the orange shell with the ice.

Lemon Ice

1/2 c. water. 1/4 c. sugar.

3 tbsp. lemon juice.

Boil the water and sugar for three minutes, add lemon juice, strain through cheese-cloth, and when cool, freeze.

Grape Juice Frappe

1/3 c. boiling water. 1 tbsp. sugar.

1/4 c. grape Juice. 1 tsp. lemon juice.

Boil water and sugar for three minutes. Strain, and when cool, add fruit juice and freeze.