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Fruit Glace

A chilled dessert of shaved ice topped with crushed fruit and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Fruit Glace

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a small glass with shaved ice.

  2. Add crushed fruit and lemon juice.

  3. Stir well and serve with a spoon and straws.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Crushed fruit
Provides the main fruit flavour and sweetness, plus moisture as it melts into the ice.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the fruit flavour and keeps it tasting fresh.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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