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Sweets/Treats Peach-Water Ice

peach-water ice
(from The Great Western Cook Book, Or Table Receipts: Adapted to Western Housewifery, by Anna Maria Collins, 1857)

Ingredients:

1 lb. of the pulp of ripe peaches​
1/2 pint syrup​
1/2 pint water​
the juice of 2 lemons​

Instructions:

Take one pound of the pulp of ripe peaches, half a pint of syrup, half a pint of water, the juice of two lemons, and mix them well. If the fruit is not ripe enough to pulp, open them and take out the stones, put them in a stewpan with the syrup and water, boil until tender, and pass them through a sieve; mix in the pounded kernels; when cold, freeze.​
 
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