This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
4 cups water
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup lemon juice
Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar five minutes; add lemon juice; cool, strain, and freeze. See directions for freezing, page 434.
Cup St. Jacques
Serve Lemon Ice in champagne glasses. Put three-fourths teaspoon Maraschino in each glass, and garnish with bananas cut in one-fourth inch slices, and slices cut in quarters, candied cherries cut in halves, Malaga grapes from which skins and seeds have been removed, and angelica cut in strips.
4 cups water 2 cups sugar 2 cups orange juice
1/4 cup lemon juice Grated rind of two oranges
Make syrup as for Lemon Ice; add fruit juice and grated rind; cool, strain, and freeze.
Prepare Orange Ice mixture, freeze to a mush, flavor with Maraschino, and finish freezing. Serve in frappé glasses.
Pomegranate Ice Same as Orange Ice, made from blood oranges.
4 cups water 1 2/3 cups sugar
2 cups raspberry juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Make a syrup as for Lemon Ice, cool, add raspberries mashed, and squeezed through double cheese-cloth, and lemon juice; strain and freeze.
1 quart raspberries 1 cup sugar
1 cup water Lemon juice
Sprinkle raspberries with sugar, cover, and let stand two hours. Mash, squeeze through cheese-cloth, add water and lemon juice to taste, then freeze. Raspberry ice prepared in this way retains the natural color of the fruit.
4 cups water 1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups strawberry juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Prepare and freeze same as Raspberry Ice I.
1 quart box strawberries 1 cup sugar
1 cup water Lemon juice
Make same as Raspberry Ice II.
4 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups currant juice
Prepare and freeze same as Raspberry Ice I.
4 cups water 1 1/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup raspberry juice 1 1/3 cups currant juice
Prepare and freeze same as Raspberry Ice I
4 cups water 1 cup sugar
1/3 cup Crême de Menthe cordial Green coloring
Make a syrup as for Lemon Ice, add cordial and coloring; strain and freeze.
Dissolve two cups sugar in three cups boiling water; cool, add three-fourths cup lemon juice, color with leaf green, and freeze. Serve in champagne glasses. Put one teaspoon crême de menthe in each glass, and sprinkle with finely chopped nut meats, using almonds, filberts, pecans, and walnuts in equal proportions. These may be used after the roast and before the game.
 
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