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Making Ice

Contains saltpetre, which may pose food safety concerns.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Making Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the agitator tightly on the bottom of the freezer.

  2. Fill the cylinder with pure water and insert it into the machine.

  3. First, add the Glauber salts, then the water, followed by the pounded saltpetre and sal ammoniac.

  4. Pour 1 to 1½ pints of the prepared mixture into each freezer and start the machine.

  5. After 10 to 12 minutes, draw off the first charge into the cooler below and immediately recharge.

  6. If the second charge is insufficient, add a third charge.

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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