Name: Creme De Menthe Ice
Ingredients: 4 cups water; ½ cup Creme de Menthe cordial; 1 cup sugar; Burnett’s Leaf Green (for coloring)

Creme De Menthe Ice

Ingredients

4 cups water
½ cup Creme de Menthe cordial
1 cup sugar
Burnett’s Leaf Green (for coloring)

Directions

Make the mixture

Boil water and sugar until dissolved.
Add the Creme de Menthe cordial and coloring, then strain the mixture.

Freeze

Freeze the strained mixture until solid.

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

Sugar: Dissolves into the boiled water to sweeten the ice and lower its freezing point for a softer texture.
Creme de menthe cordial: Provides the mint flavor that defines 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.