Name: Crême De Menthe Ice
Ingredients: 4 cups water; 1 cup sugar; ⅓ cup Crême de Menthe cordial; Burnett’s Leaf Green

Crême De Menthe Ice

Ingredients

4 cups water
1 cup sugar
⅓ cup Crême de Menthe cordial
Burnett’s Leaf Green

Directions

Make the mixture

Make a syrup as for Lemon Ice.
Add the cordial and coloring.
Strain the mixture.

Freeze

Freeze the strained liquid.

By Fannie Merritt Farmer. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Sugar: Sweetens the syrup and helps keep the frozen ice softer by lowering its freezing point.
Crème de menthe cordial: Provides the mint flavour and aroma that define the dish.

“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.