Iced Rice à l'Impératrice.— Blanch half a pound
of good rice, drain well, then simmer it gently for an
hour in three pints of boiled cream, with three-
quarters of a pound of sugar. When this is cold
freeze it, and when three-parts frozen add two egg
whites of Italian meringue, again freeze it, and when
all but ready stir in 6oz. to 8oz. of preserved fruit,
previously cut into dice and marinaded with lemon
juice, and liqueur or spirit to taste. Freeze a
moment longer, then turn it into a mould, and
freeze for one and a half to two hours in the ice cave.
Serve with the following sauce: Half freeze a pint
of champagne, mixed with a gill of syrup boiled to
30 degrees, add an Italian meringue, made of sugar
syrup and one egg white, and serve in a boat with
the ice.