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PISTACHE ICE CREAM
(Gelato di pistacchi)
- Milk, one quart.
- Sugar, six ounces.
- Pistaches, two ounces.
Skin the pistaches in warm water and grind them very fine with a tablespoonful of the sugar, then put in a saucepan with the yolks and the sugar, mixing everything together. Add the milk and put the mixture on the fire stirring with the ladle and when it is condensed like cream, let it cool and put in the freezer.
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TUTTI FRUTTI
To make this ice a special ice cream mold is necessary, or a tin receptacle that can be closed hermetically.
Take several varieties of fruits of the season, ripe and of good quality, that is to say, strawberries, cherries, plums, apricots, a big peach, a good sized pear, a piece of good cantaloupe. Peel, skin and remove stones and cores of all these fruits. Then cut them into very thin slices, throwing away the cores and stones.
When the fruit is prepared in this manner, weigh it, and sprinkle over one fifth of its weight of powdered sugar, squeezing also one
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