Hanover Bomb
Bombe à la Hanovre
Put in a mortar two pounds of raw ripe stoned cherries, black for preference, one and a half pounds of raspberries, four figs, half a pound of peeled ripe melon, the pulp of three tangerines, and the peels of the same that have been finely chopped, half a pound of castor sugar, and a quarter-pint of rose-water; pound these to a pulp, then mix with one and a half pints of lemon cream ice (‘ Book of Ices,’ page 17), and rub it through a tammy; colour with Marshall’s Carmine, and partly freeze it in the charged freezer, add to it half a pint of stiffly-whipped cream, refreeze it, and with it fill a Kosiki ice mould; put this in the charged ice cave for three and a half to four hours, during which time turn it from side to side occasionally, then when ready to serve turn out the ice in the usual way on to a pedestal dish on a fancy paper, and garnish with little rose shapes of stiffly-whipped cream, as below. Serve for a dessert or dinner ice.