This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
The same as the sherbets with the white of eggs or gelatine left out, except that as a rule they cannot be well made with cooked or scalded fruit as sherbets can, but should have the expressed juice of the raw fruit mixed with water and sugar. Some kinds of fruit, especially cherries, grapes and peaches have the gummy property that causes them to become light and white in the freezer if beaten much, precisely as if eggs or jelly had been added; consequently when water ices are desired to serve almost as beverages at evening parties they are better frozen in an old fashioned freezer, scraped down from the sides with a palette knife and not beaten too much.
 
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