Included as part of an Independence Day dinner menu devised by Adele K. Johnson, this red fruit sherbet combines red raspberries and red currant juice with boiled sugar syrup. Folded with an egg meringue after the dasher is removed, it was presented in lemonade glasses to carry through the red portion of the patriotic red, white, and blue theme.
Original
Boil a pound of sugar and one quart of water
for five minutes. Mash one quart of red rasp-
berries. Add these and one cup of red currant
juice to the cold sirup; now strain thoroughly
through a cloth. Freeze, stirring constantly.
Remove the dasher and add a meringue (one
egg); serve in lemonade glasses.
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Recipe
Ingredients
1 pound sugar
1 quart water
1 quart red raspberries, mashed
1 cup red currant juice
meringue, made with one egg
Directions
Boil the sugar and water together for five minutes. Allow the syrup to cool. Mash the red raspberries, then add them along with the red currant juice to the cold syrup. Strain thoroughly through a cloth. Freeze in an ice cream freezer, stirring constantly. Remove the dasher, fold in the meringue made from one egg, and serve in lemonade glasses.
Item type
recipe
Yield
Not stated
Timing
5 minutes (boiling syrup)
Temperature
Not stated
Equipment
ice cream freezer with dasher; cloth for straining; lemonade glasses
Names & connections
Fourth of Julytopic · holiday menu course
Source context
menu schedule
MENU
MENU
Potato Soup
“Give us a taste of your quality.”
Hamlet.
Roast LambGreen CornBaked Cauliflower
“It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes a Feast; at the feast of the Centaurs, they ate with one hand and had their drawn swords in the other; where there is no peace there can be no Feast.”
Clarendon.
Raspberry Sherbet
“Cheerful looks make every dish a feast.”
Massinger.
Cabbage Salad
“The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.”
Peter Pindar.
Cocoanut PuddingStrawberry Sauce
“Appetite comes with eating.”
Vanilla Ice CreamAngel Cake
“Now I am in a holiday humor.”
Shakespeare.
Strawberry Sirup
“Drink, pretty creature, drink.”
Wordsworth.
Bonbons
“War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain,
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.”
Source evidence: MENU
Potato Soup
‘* Give us a taste of your quality.”’
Hamlet.
Roast Lamb
Green Corn Baked Caulitlower
‘‘Itis not the quantity of the meat, but the
cheerfulness of the guests, which makes a Feast;
at the feast of the Centaurs, they ate with one
hand and had their drawn swords in the other;
where there is no peace there can be no Feast."’
Clarendon.
Raspberry Sherbet
‘** Cheerful looks make every dish a feast."’
Massinger.
publication context
On Independence Day
On Independence Day
By ADELE K. JOHNSON
THE quiet of our pleasant little town was invaded one sunny June morning by a charming messenger, a wee maiden bearing notes on novel tricolor paper, tied lavishly with patriotic ribbons. The proud recipients discovered that they were invitations to a “Fourth of July Dinner.”