These are sherbets and water ices with spiritons liquors added and are of two classes. They are (according to the French usage) Roman punches when they are beaten up with meringue or white of eggs like the sherbets of the preceding receipts, and plain iced punches when not so whitened and are in a semi-transparent condition.

Some of these punches cannot be frozen quite solid and must be served in glasses in a half fluid condition as beverages, on account of the spirit and sugar they contain and all of them take more ice and salt to freeze them than any mixture without liquors. The stronger they ore made the harder they are to freeze.