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.
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/3 cup claret
Boil sugar and water eight minutes; cool slightly, and add claret.
1 cup sugar 3/4 cup water
1 pint heavy cream
1 tablespoon vanilla
Boil sugar and water until syrup will thread when dropped from tip of spoon. Pour slowly on the beaten whites of eggs, and continue the beating until mixture is cool. Add cream beaten until stiff, and vanilla; then freeze.
1 cup milk
1/4 cup Mocha coffee
Yolks 3 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
3 cups thin cream
Scald milk with coffee, and add one-half the sugar; without training, use this mixture for making custard, with eggs, salt, and remaining sugar; add one cup cream and let stand thirty minutes; cool, strain through double cheesecloth, add remaining cream, and freeze. Line a mould, fill with Italian Meringue, cover, pack in salt and ice, using two parts crushed ice to one part rock salt, and let stand three hours.
4 eggs
1 cup hot maple syrup
1 pint thick cream
Beat eggs slightly, and pour on slowly maple syrup. Cook until mixture thickens, cool, and add cream beaten until stiff. Mould, pack in salt and ice, and let stand three hours.
 
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