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White Cherry Cream

1 quart of pure sweet cream. 3 or 4 pints of California white wax cherries. 1 pound of sugar. 1/2 pint of water.

Make a boiling syrup of the sugar and water, drop in the cherries and let them simmer in it about 15 minutes, without stirring or breaking. Then strain the flavored syrup into the freezer and set the fruit on ice, to be mixed in at last. Add the quart of cream to the syrup in the freezer, freeze and beat up well, then stir in the cherries and pack down with more ice and salt. Artificial ice made at a cost of one dollar a ton; ice cream same price. "It were a consummation devoutly to be wished." We are thinking not of the finished product after it has left our hands--perhaps the young gentlemen who take the young ladies out on summer evenings would not wish it quite so cheap--but of some easy and perfect process of freezing it such as is condensed and summed up in the idea conveyed by that rate of cheapness. For few know how difficult it is to get the drudgery of ice--cream freezing done properly, none perhaps but those who have to oversee its preparation along with a number of other skill--demanding productions for the hotel dinner. It is of little avail that we make the cream or custard or sherbet good and finely flavored if the transformations possible in the freezing process be not skilfully carried out. In freezing, if you know how, you can transform skimmed milk into the semblance of cream, and if you don't you can not prevent rich cream from transforming itself into the semblance of skimmed milk. Now when they get through with that tedious electric light subdivision perhaps the inventors will subdivide the artificial ice machines so that ice cream can be made in every little house in some less clumsy and imperfect way than the present with ice and salt. The great obstructionist in ice cream making is the lazy yardman, second pastry--cook or other helper who ought to turn the freezer fast and beat the cream thoroughly, and we want an electrical or chemical machine of some kind to supersede him.