This section is from the book "The Blue Grass Cook Book", by Minnie C. Fox. Also available from Amazon: The Blue Grass Cook Book.
Make a syrup of 1 pound sugar, 1 quart water, and add juice of 3 oranges and 1 lemon. Boil a few minutes and strain into the freezer. When it begins to thicken, flavor with a small bottle of champagne.
Mrs. Henry C. BucJcner
5 pints of cranberries,
6 lemons.
Make quite sweet.
Boil cranberries in 1/2 gallon of water till tender. Strain through a sieve to get all the pulp, holding back the skins. Add the lemon juice and make as sweet as you would sherbet. Put in freezer and freeze well. Then take 1 wineglassful of fine whisky, 1/2 wineglass of old Jamaica rum, and beat in thoroughly, and pack in freezer till ready to serve.
Mrs. Henry C. Buckner
Make a nice lemon sherbet or ice and freeze till firm. Add
1/2 pint of creme de mint, 1/2 wineglass of Jamaica rum,
And turn dasher rapidly a few times.
When ready to serve, decorate with creme de mint cherries.
Mrs. Henry C. Buckner Yolks of 12 eggs, 1 pound of sugar, 1 pint of brandy, 1 pint of Jamaica rum, 1 gallon of cream.
Beat the yolks very light and add the sugar, then the whipped cream. Freeze till firm, and then add the brandy and rum, and turn freezer rapidly a few times to mix well. Ready to serve.
Mrs. Swims
1 quart of juice from fresh grapes,
4 lemons, juice only,
1 tablespoon of gelatine, dissolved in water.
Sweeten to taste. Mix well and freeze.
1 quart Madeira wine, 1 pint water, 1/2 pound sugar, Juice of 1 lemon.
Make a syrup of sugar and water and add lemon juice. When cool, strain and put in freezer. When it begins to thicken, add 1 quart Madeira wine and freeze hard.
Miss Annie Lyle
6 oranges,
2 lemons,
1 quart of water,
1 pint sugar.
Squeeze the fruit, being careful to remove the seed. Boil the water and pour over the sugar. When dissolved, let the water stand on the fruit for 1/2 hour. Strain and mix with the juice and freeze. This will make 2 quarts.
Take enough berries to make a quart of juice. Add juice of 3 lemons and 1 pound sugar. Pour over 1 quart boiling water and let it stand 1 hour, and then strain into freezer and freeze hard.
Make a strong lemonade, about a quart, and put in freezer. When half frozen, add whites of 4 eggs, well beaten, and 1 glass of Jamaica rum, juice of 3 oranges, and a small glass of champagne, if preferred, and freeze hard.
Miss Mary Bashford
1 quart of water 3 lemons,
2 teacups of sugar,
3 eggs.
Cook sugar to a candy. Stir it into whites of eggs as for icing. Season and freeze.
Mrs. Campbell Carrington Cochran 1 quart of water and 2 cups of sugar boiled together 5 minutes. Remove from the fire and add
Juice of 6 oranges, Juice of 3 lemons, 1 1/2 pints of sherry. Freeze.
Mash the berries and have 1 quart juice. Add juice of 2 lemons, 1 pound sugar. Pour over 1 quart boiling water and let it stand an hour. Strain and pour in freezer and freeze quite hard.
 
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