Orange Sherbet
Boil 1 pit water and 2 cup sugar to a Syrup add the juice of 3 oranges. Partly froze add milk and one egg.
Peppermint Ice Cream
Put 1 lb. of peppermint candy in sticks into 1 qt. of new milk in the morning. Let it stand near the ice until you are ready to freeze the cream for dinner. Stir in 1 qt. of good cream and freeze. The sugar of the candy will sweeten it enough and it will be a delicious pink in color.
Cranberry Ice
A pleasant change from the usual accompaniment to the roast turkey, the cranberry sauce or jelly of varied quality, is the cranberry ice. Stew 1 pt. of cranberries in 1 qt. of water until soft, then drain through a cheese cloth strainer. Add 1 lb. of sugar, the juice of 1 lemon with a little of the rind, and heat it until the sugar melts and it boils up once, then strain and cool, turn it into the freezer and turn until it is like mush.
Lemon Ice
Take the juice of 4 lemons, add 2 pts. of thin syrup made With about 1 pt. of sugar. Into every qt. when it begins to freeze, stir the whites of 2 eggs, beaten very light with a little powdered sugar. This will make it smooth. Any kind of water ice may be made by mixing the strained juice of the fruit--currant, raspberry, strawberry, etc.--with syrup flavored to taste and add the white of an egg when it begins to freeze.
Lemon Sherbet (Made with milk.)
Half freeze 1 qt. of milk and 1 pint of sugar, then add the juice of 3 lemons and the juice and grated rind of 1 orange. Finish freezing.
Strawberry Sherbet
One pt. of crushed strawberries, 1 pt. water, 1 pt. sugar, juice of 2 lemons. Freeze.
Strawberry Ice
Two and 1/2 pts. milk, 2 1/2 cups of sugar, dissolve sugar in the milk, then put in freezer and stir till it begins to thicken, then add the juice from 2 qts. of strawberries and finish freezing.
Grape Ice
Boil 1 qt. of water and 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar 10 minutes; add 1 1/2 cupfuls of Concord grape juice from fresh grapes. When cold freeze and serve in glasses.
Ginger Water Ice
Six ounces preserved ginger, 1 qt. lemon ice. Make lemon ice as follows: Four large juicy lemons, 1 qt. water, 1 orange, 1 1/4 pounds sugar. Boil sugar, water and rind of lemons and orange 5 minutes. Cool it and add juice of orange and lemons, strain and freeze. Pound 4 ounces of the ginger to a paste, cut the other 2 ounces into very thin slices and stir these into the lemon ice. Repack and stand away to ripen.