Venice Ice
Glace à la Venise
Put in a stewpan one and a half pints of new milk with two blades of mace, four and a half ounces of castor sugar, a good pinch of ground cinnamon, and the finely-chopped peel of two oranges and two lemons; bring to the boil, then stir it on to eight raw yolks of eggs, return the mixture to the stewpan and stir it on the fire till it is thick; rub it through a tammy or strain it; set it aside till cold, then pour it into the charged freezer and freeze it to the consistency of a thick batter; add to it two wineglassfuls of anisette, half a wineglassful of Noyeau liqueur or Marshall's Noyeau Syrup, half a pint of stiffly-whipped cream, and four raw whites of eggs that have been whipped very stiffly; refreeze it, add a quarter-pound of ratafia biscuit-crumbs and one ounce of finely-pounded preserved rose leaves; put the ice into any plain or fancy ice-mould, place this in the charged ice cave for three and a half to four hours, during which time turn the mould occasionally from side to side; when then ready to serve dip it into cold water and turn out the ice in the usual way on to a dish on a paper. Serve for a dinner or dessert ice, or for any cold collation, having George's Cheltenham wafers handed with it.