Home › The Principles of Cookery › Sherbet

Sherbet

Sherbet is a favourite beverage in the East, universally used among wealthy Mohammedans, to whom the use of wine is forbidden by the Koran. It consists of water, the juice of lemon, orange, or other fruits, with sugar, flavoured further with honey, spices, and even perfumes. Its pleasant acidity blended with sweetness renders it well calculated to assuage thirst in a warm climate. The poorer classes who cannot afford to have it so rich, drink water prepared with a little sugar and fruit juice. In India this is carried about in goats' skins for sale.