Name: Melon Sherbet
Ingredients: 1 or 2 watermelons; ½ pint claret; ⅓ cup maraschino; sugar to taste

Melon Sherbet

Ingredients

1 or 2 watermelons
½ pint claret
⅓ cup maraschino
sugar to taste

Directions

Prepare

Remove the rind and seeds from the watermelons and squeeze out the water.

Make the sherbet

To 1 quart of watermelon juice, add ½ pint of claret and ⅓ cup of maraschino.
Add sugar to taste.
Freeze the mixture and serve.

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

Watermelons: Provide the juice that forms the body and flavor of the sherbet.
Claret: Adds acidity and wine flavor that balances the sweetness of the watermelon.
Maraschino: Adds aromatic cherry-almond flavor and some sweetness to the 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.