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Sweets/Treats To Make Sherbet

to make sherbet
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(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1861)

Ingredients:

9 Seville oranges​
3 lemons​
1 gallon of water​
3 lbs. double refined sugar​

Instructions:

Take nine Seville oranges and three lemons; grate off the yellow from the rinds, and put the raspings into a gallon of water, with three pounds of double refined sugar, and boil it to a candy height; then take it off the fire, and add the pulp of the oranges and lemons; keep stirring it until it is almost cold, then put it into a vessel for use.​
 
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