Gastronome Gooseberry Water Ice
Eau de Groseilles à la Gastronome
Take three pints of picked raw fresh-gathered red gooseberries and pound them; add a few drops of Marshall’s Carmine, half a pound of castor sugar, one and a half pints of water, and the juice of three oranges; rub the mixture through a hair sieve or tammy cloth, and pour the purée into a charged freezer; freeze it till somewhat dry; flavour it with a wineglassful of Silver Rays (white) rum and a wineglassful of rose water; refreeze it and put it into any suitable mould; place this in the charged ice cave for about three hours; then turn out the ice in the usual way on to a dish on a paper, and serve for dessert, or ball supper, or for tennis parties. George’s Cheltenham Wafers should be handed on a separate plate.