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Wild Plum Ice

As good in its turn as pineapple or lemon. The plums must not be cooked, however. 1 pound of wild plums--ripe and sweet, red or yellow. 1 pound of sugar. 1 quart of water. 4 whites of eggs.

Mash the plums and sugar together in a bright pan, add the water and rub the pulp and syrup through a strainer into a freezer. Freeze, add the the whipped whites and beat up as usual. It makes a cream-white ice, that may be colored with a little boiled red plum syrup or otherwise.

Wild plum ice cream of sweet plums may also be made by the directions given for pineapple ice cream. The flavor is very good.

The cook wanted to make a tapioca custard ice but the appearance of it on the bill of fare bothered him. He knew it was good, for sometimes the tapioca cup-custard had become half frozen where it was set in ice to get cold, and it was extremely rich. He knew there was such a thing as iced pudding, but then it might be taken to mean only pudding iced over like cake, and besides iced pudding should be of two parts, cream and fruit. This was at a Sulphur Springs down in a warm State where they had ices of some sort for dinner every day during three-fourths of the year, and two kinds on Sundays, and the repetitions of ice cream and lemon she bet became extremely tiresome. So he concluded to put it on the bill of fare frozen tapioca pudding. But the people who ate the dinners were not tired of ices, and the eating of them had become a sort of habit, and to have left out the ices would have seemed as strange as to have left out coffee or bread. And when the young colonel, who was always ready to penetrate a witicism remarked significantly that if there was one thing he did love it was ice cream, and if there was one thing he did despise it was cold pudding, everybody looked all the bill of fare, and the young ladies said, oh, dear! But the brig dier general said he had half a mind to try it and see what frozen pudding was, and the old lady said he needn't be a bit afraid for everything they made there was good. But while they were talking the judge, who was wanted at the courthouse again, had had his brought in, and he spoke up and said they couldn't fool him, it was ice cream. Then the young ladies said again how very, very ridiculous, and they might bring them a little, please. And it ended badly, for through this unwonted advertising of the article it gave out and there was not over half enough to go round. But, begging the judges pardon, it was not ice cream, now what was it?