This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
1 quart of water. Scant pint of fruit juice. 2 cups of sugar. Juice of one lemon. 1 teaspoonful of gelatine. For lemon sherbet one cup of lemon juice.
Boil the water and sugar twenty minutes (let boil vigorously during the whole time); add the gelatine softened in cold water, strain and when cold add the fruit juice and freeze.
Press a can of choice pears through a fine sieve, and a can of grated pineapple through a cheesecloth, pressing out all the juice possible from the pineapple. If more convenient and a very fine sieve be used, the pineapple may be pressed through the sieve with the pears; add the juice of two lemons, two cups and one half of sugar and two cups of cold water; stir until the sugar is dissolved, then freeze in the usual manner.
1 quart of water. 1 pint of grape juice. 1 pint of sugar. The juice of two lemons. 1 teaspoonful of gelatine.
Proceed as usual.

Let slices of peeled peaches, bits of prepared pineapple, stoned cherries, peeled plums, white grapes, seeded and skinned, and orange sections stand in their own juice and syrup at 35° by the gauge, surrounded by ice until thoroughly chilled. To serve, dispose in tall wine glasses and cover with a few spoonfuls of fruit sherbet flavored to taste.
 
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