Name: How to Freeze Desserts
Ingredients: ice; coarse rock salt; burlap bag; wooden mallet or axe; small saucepan; water

How to Freeze Desserts

Ingredients

Directions

Crush ice finely by placing it in a burlap bag and hitting it with a mallet or axe.
Remove any coarse pieces of ice.
In a wooden tub, place the can containing the mixture to be frozen.
Cover the can and adjust the top.
Add three parts ice to one part salt.
Turn the crank to ensure the can fits in the socket.

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.