4 cups cream. 2 cups sugar.

5 cups red cherries. 1/2 cup water.

Use only the light red cherries for this purpose, for the dark kinds make an unpleasant color.

Boil the water and sugar together and drop the cherries in. Let simmer at the side of the range a few minutes without stirring or breaking them. Then strain the syrup into the freezer and set the fruit on ice to be mixed in at last. Add the quart of cream to the syrup in the freezer, freeze and beat up well, then add the cherries and cover down till wanted.