This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
Take a rasping of the yellow rind from a lemon, put it, with two tablespoonfuls of sugar, into one cupful of boiling water, boil about two minutes, strain, and add the juice of a lemon. When the mixture is very cold, freeze it, turning constantly until it is frozen. The mixture should be light and white.
Make the same as lemon sorbet, using a half cupful of water with the sugar and grated yellow rind of a quarter of the orange. Boil and strain, and when cold add a half pint of orange juice, and freeze.
Boil the sugar and water together, strain, take from the fire, and when cool add a half cupful of grated fresh pineapple, and freeze.
Add four tablespoonfuls of water to eight tablespoonfuls of grape juice, and freeze.
Boil two tablespoonfuls of sugar with a half pint of water for two minutes, add the leaves from four stalks of mint, chopped fine and pounded to a pulp. Stand this aside and let it steep slowly twenty minutes, press through a fine sieve, and when cold freeze.
All fruit juices may be slightly sweetened and frozen. For fever cases freeze them without sugar - they are grateful and beneficial.
 
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