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Water Ices

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'WATER ICES Cider Ice.

1 quart cider, 1 cupful orange juice, 1 cupful lemon juice, 11 cupfuls sugar.

Dissolve the sugar in the cider, add the fruit juice, mix the ingredients, and freeze.

Orange Ice.

4 cupfuls water, 2 cupfuls orange juice, 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful lemon juice, Grated rind 2 oranges.

Boil sugar and water twenty min utes. Add fruit juices and grated rind; cool, strain, and freeze.

Apple 'Water Ice.

6 large tart apples, 2 cupfuls sugar, 4 cupfuls water, 2 lemons.

Put the apples, sugar, and water on to boil, add the grated yellow rind of 1 lemon. Cook' until the apples are reduced to a pulp, take from the fire, drain carefully, without squeez ing, add the juice of the lemons; when cold, freeze.

Cunant 'Water Ice.

2 cupfuls red-currant juice, 2 cupfuls sugar, 2 cupfuls boiling water.

Add the sugar to the boiling wa ter, and stir until dissolved. When cold, add the currant juice, and freeze.

Pineapple Water Ice.

2 large yellow pineapples, 3 cupfuls sugar, 4 cupfuls water, Juice 2 lemons.

Pare the pineapples, grate them, and add the juice of the lemons. Boil the sugar and water together five minutes. When cold, add the pine apple, strain through a fine sieve, and freeze.

Raspberry 'Water Ice.

1 quart red raspberries, 4 cupfuls water, Juice 2 lemons, 2 cupfuls sugar.

Add the sugar and lemon juice to the berries, stir, and stand an hour; then mash, add the water, strain through a cloth, and freeze.

Strawberry Water Ice.

1 quart strawberries, 2 cupfuls sugar, 4 cupfuls water, Juice 2 lemons.

Add the sugar and lemon juice to the strawberries, mash them, and stand an hour; add the water, strain through a cloth, and freeze.

Grape Water Ice.

3 pounds Concord grapes, 4 cupfuls water, 2 cupfuls sugar.

Boil the sugar and water together five minutes. Pulp the grapes, add the pulps and skins to the sirup; stand to cool. When cold, press through a fine sieve, being careful not to mash the seeds, and freeze.

Ginger Water Ice.

6 ounces preserved ginger, 1 quart lemon water ice.

Pound 4 ounces ginger to a paste. Cut the remaining 2 ounces into very thin slices and stir these into the wa ter ice. Repack, and stand to ripen.

Lemon Water Ice.

4 large juicy lemons, 4 cupfuls water, 1 orange, 9i cupfuls sugar.

Put the sugar and water on to boil. Chip the yellow rind from 3 lemons and the orange, add to the sirup, boil five minutes, and stand to cool. Squeeze the juice from the orange and lemons, add to the cold sirup, strain through a cloth, and freeze.

Barberry Water Ice.

4 large juicy lemons, 4 cupfuls water, 1 orange, 2f cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful barberry juice.

Add pint barberry juice, slightly sweetened, to the recipe for lemon wa ter ice, before freezing.

Pomegranate Water Ice.

I dozen ripe pomegranates, 2 cupfuls water, 2 cupfuls sugar.

Cut the pomegranates into halves, remove the seeds carefully from the inside bitter skin, press in a sieve without breaking the seeds. Add the sugar to the juice, and stir until dis solved, add the water, strain, and freeze.

Quince Water Ice.

3 large ripe quinces, 4 cupfuls water, 1 cupful sugar.

Pare the quinces and cut into thin slices, add with the sugar to the wa ter, cover the saucepan, cook fifteen minutes, strain, and freeze.

Italian Tntti-Frutti.

1 pound mixed French candied fruits, 4 cupfuls water, 2i cupfuls sugar, 3 lemons, 4 oranges.

Chop the fruit fine. Put the sugar and water with chipped rinds of 2 lemons and 1 orange to boil five min utes. When cold, add the juice of 2 lemons and oranges, strain, and freeze very hard; then stir in the fruit, stand thirty minutes, and it is ready to serve.