This section is from the book "Common Sense In The Household. A Manual Of Practical Housewifery", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Common Sense in the Household.
6 oranges - juice of all, and grated peel of three.
2 lemons - the juice only.
1 pint of sugar dissolved in 1 pint of water.
Prepare and freeze as you would lemon ice.
1 juicy ripe pineapple - peeled and cut small.
Juice and grated peel of 1 lemon.
1 pint of sugar.
1 " water, or a little less.
Strew the sugar over the pineapple and let it stand an hour. Mash all up together, and strain out the syrup through a hair-sieve. Add the water and freeze.
1 quart cherries, with half the stones pounded in a Wedgewood mortar.
2 lemons - the juice only.
1 pint of water, in which dissolve 1 pint of sugar. 1 glass of fine brandy.
Squeeze out the bruised cherries and stones, in a bag over the sugar; add the water, then the brandy, and freeze.
It will require a longer time to freeze than other ices, on account of the brandy.
1 quart red currants.
1 pint raspberries - red or white.
1 pint of water.
1 1/2 " of sugar.
Squeeze out the juice ; mix in the sugar and water, and freeze.
Strawberry or Raspberry Ice.
1 quart berries. Extract the juice and strain. 1 pint sugar - dissolved in the juice. 1 lemon - juice only, 1/2 pint of water.
 
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