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Cafe Au Parfait

Prepare and keep in the freezer a pint (only) vanilla ice cream. Place one ounce good ground coffee in a small coffee pot, pour over one gill boiling water and let infuse for twenty minutes, then strain it through a fine cheesecloth into the vanilla ice cream; add at the same time half pint whipped cream, mix well with a spatula and let stand in the tub for fifteen minutes more; then fill up six cafe parfait or sherbet glasses, decorate the top with a little whipped cream, arrange four halved candied cherries on top of each and serve.