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Cherry Water Ice

A chilled cherry ice cream made by mashing cherries, adding sugar, optional Noyau, and freezing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cherry Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mash the cherries and strain the juice through a fine sieve.

  2. Add sugar to taste and mix well.

  3. If desired, add a drop of Noyau for flavor.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a freezing pot and freeze according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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

Morello cherries
Provide the main cherry flavor and the juice that forms the base of the ice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the ice's texture by lowering its freezing point.

“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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