Period Ice Orangeade

[Albert Sailhorst]

Ice Orangeade


From "Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches", 1840



Ingredients 1 1/2 pints of orange juice 1/2 pint of clear or filtered water 1/2 pound of powdered loaf-sugar 6 deep-coloured oranges Instructions Take orange juice, and mix it with the water. Stir in powdered loaf-sugar. Pare very thin the yellow rind of the oranges, cut in pieces, and lay it at the bottom of a bowl or tureen. Pour the orange juice and sugar upon it; cover it, and let it infuse an hour. Then strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream. When it is frozen, put it into a mould, (it will look best in the form of a pine-apple,) and freeze it a second time. Serve it in glass cups, with any sort of very nice sweet cakes. Ice lemonade may be made in the above manner, but with a larger proportion of sugar. The juice of pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, currants and cherries, may be prepared and frozen according to the above receipts. They will freeze in a shorter time than if mixed with cream, but are very inferior in richness.

 

[Jimklag]

Ice Orangeade


From "Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches", 1840



Ingredients 1 1/2 pints of orange juice 1/2 pint of clear or filtered water 1/2 pound of powdered loaf-sugar 6 deep-coloured oranges Instructions Take orange juice, and mix it with the water. Stir in powdered loaf-sugar. Pare very thin the yellow rind of the oranges, cut in pieces, and lay it at the bottom of a bowl or tureen. Pour the orange juice and sugar upon it; cover it, and let it infuse an hour. Then strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream. When it is frozen, put it into a mould, (it will look best in the form of a pine-apple,) and freeze it a second time. Serve it in glass cups, with any sort of very nice sweet cakes. Ice lemonade may be made in the above manner, but with a larger proportion of sugar. The juice of pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, currants and cherries, may be prepared and frozen according to the above receipts. They will freeze in a shorter time than if mixed with cream, but are very inferior in richness.

Sounds like sorbet. Yummy.

 

[Jimklag]

Ice Orangeade


From "Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches", 1840



Ingredients 1 1/2 pints of orange juice 1/2 pint of clear or filtered water 1/2 pound of powdered loaf-sugar 6 deep-coloured oranges Instructions Take orange juice, and mix it with the water. Stir in powdered loaf-sugar. Pare very thin the yellow rind of the oranges, cut in pieces, and lay it at the bottom of a bowl or tureen. Pour the orange juice and sugar upon it; cover it, and let it infuse an hour. Then strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream. When it is frozen, put it into a mould, (it will look best in the form of a pine-apple,) and freeze it a second time. Serve it in glass cups, with any sort of very nice sweet cakes. Ice lemonade may be made in the above manner, but with a larger proportion of sugar. The juice of pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, currants and cherries, may be prepared and frozen according to the above receipts. They will freeze in a shorter time than if mixed with cream, but are very inferior in richness.

I posted last night about discovering the yumminess of my first tasting of blood-orange sorbet. This looks just as good.

 

[nitrofd]

Ice Orangeade


From "Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches", 1840



Ingredients 1 1/2 pints of orange juice 1/2 pint of clear or filtered water 1/2 pound of powdered loaf-sugar 6 deep-coloured oranges Instructions Take orange juice, and mix it with the water. Stir in powdered loaf-sugar. Pare very thin the yellow rind of the oranges, cut in pieces, and lay it at the bottom of a bowl or tureen. Pour the orange juice and sugar upon it; cover it, and let it infuse an hour. Then strain the liquid into a freezer, and proceed as for ice cream. When it is frozen, put it into a mould, (it will look best in the form of a pine-apple,) and freeze it a second time. Serve it in glass cups, with any sort of very nice sweet cakes. Ice lemonade may be made in the above manner, but with a larger proportion of sugar. The juice of pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, currants and cherries, may be prepared and frozen according to the above receipts. They will freeze in a shorter time than if mixed with cream, but are very inferior in richness.

How man people back then would have a mold of a pinneapple.

 

[donna]

This sounds good. Thanks for finding and posting.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Interesting that pineapple back then was a hyphenated word. Does sound a lot like sorbet. I'm also curious on how one would not only have a mold in the shape of pineapple, but where the devil would you freeze something? An ice house? I assume only the wealthy could manage such desserts and treats.

Oh, and @nitrofd I found a jelly/pudding mold with a pineapple in it from from the 19th century - https://www.etsy.com/listing/499108565/antique-19th-century-pineapple-motif-tin I don't think this was exactly what the recipe was calling for, but it's similar no doubt.