Cherry Ice Water

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

As it's the dog days of August I thought a lovely 19th century recipe for cherry would be a perfect addition to the Food Forum. This is from The Book of Ices by AB Marshall who I mentioned in the Victorian Ice Cream making post. I'm unsure of the freezing method used as the book was written in 1857, though there is a section on the tools used to prepare the ices and ice creams. I can post information on those if folks are interested. Otherwise the below recipe is very straightforward and instead of carmine to color you could use a few drops of red food dye. A tammy is cloth similar to cheese cloth. I have to say that this is adult ice as it has kirsch liqueur in it which sounds like an amazing addition to cherry ice!

 

[DaveBrt]

As it's the dog days of August I thought a lovely 19th century recipe for cherry would be a perfect addition to the Food Forum. This is from The Book of Ices by AB Marshall who I mentioned in the Victorian Ice Cream making post. I'm unsure of the freezing method used as the book was written in 1857, though there is a section on the tools used to prepare the ices and ice creams. I can post information on those if folks are interested. Otherwise the below recipe is very straightforward and instead of carmine to color you could use a few drops of red food dye. A tammy is cloth similar to cheese cloth. I have to say that this is adult ice as it has kirsch liqueur in it which sounds like an amazing addition to cherry ice!

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If I made this it would DEFINITELY be an adult drink, since we use large wine glasses.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

If I made this it would DEFINITELY be an adult drink, since we use large wine glasses.

Well 19th century wine glasses depending on the decade were smaller than our large bowl shaped ones of today, but still even 6 ounces of kirsch is quite a lot for the alcohol laced ice!

 

[donna]

Not a drink for the young. Thanks for posting.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

We still have a good month to go dealing with HHH. Just because stores are stocking Halloween candy ( they really are! ) doesn't mean it's time to buy it. We're still hot enough to look for these recipes. Thanks for posting!

 

[AshleyMel]

Does sound good. I have never heard of pounding the kernals. Is this something that was common?

 

[donna]

I read about pounding the kernels in several recipes. One was an Almond Cake recipe from book "Housekeeping in The Bluegrass". It referred to pounding almonds. There also mention of pounding corn kernels in several cornbread recipes.

 

[sailorruss]

Sounds like a great break from Pimm's #1 for a while.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Does sound good. I have never heard of pounding the kernals. Is this something that was common?

I've also seen it in a number of stone fruit recipes. I was a little concerned about that part as I would think the kernels are not something we would encourage folks to ingest today - unless that's only a concern with certain varieties of kernels.

 

[donna]

I think you really ground them so like a powder.