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Ginger Water Ice

A chilled beverage made from preserved ginger, raw ginger, lemonade, and meringue paste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Ginger Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound the preserved ginger with a little raw ginger.

  2. Make 2 quarts of lemonade.

Freeze

  1. Mix the ginger mixture with the lemonade.

  2. Add meringue paste and freeze the mixture.

Finish

  1. Use less syrup.

  2. Do not overwork it for drinking.

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

Preserved ginger
Gives the main ginger flavour and sweetness to the ice.
Raw ginger
Adds a sharper, fresher ginger aroma and bite.
Lemonade
Forms the liquid base and adds sweetness and acidity.
Meringue paste
Lightens the texture of the frozen mixture.

“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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