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Cherry Water Ice

A chilled dessert made from cherry juice, noyau, water, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cherry Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the cherries and extract the juice.

  2. Add a little noyau to give it the flavor of the cherry kernel.

  3. Freeze the mixture.

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

Kentish cherries
Provide the main fruit juice, giving the ice its flavor, color and sweetness.
Noyau
Adds a bitter almond-like aroma from the cherry kernel to deepen the flavor.

“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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