Name: Maraschino Water Ice
Ingredients: 1 pint lemon ice; genuine maraschino

Maraschino Water Ice

Ingredients

1 pint lemon ice
genuine maraschino

Directions

Make a pint of lemon ice.
Flavour it well with genuine maraschino.
Put it into the freezing pot and work it well.

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

Lemon ice: Provides the cold, icy base that the maraschino flavour is added to.
Genuine maraschino: Adds the characteristic cherry-almond aroma and sweetness to the ice.

“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.