1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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To Ice Water.

tube fox* fifteen minutes, the water in the jug will be frozen. Then pour out the freezing mixture (it is useless after one application), fill the tube with warm watei', and the iced mass will come out ; bi'eak up and bottle. This jug is sold at 315, Oxford Street, London. To Ice Water . — Fill water caraffes, or clean wine bottles, with clean spring water, nearly up to the

(If they are filled full they are liable to

shoulder.

burst.) Stop up the mouths, and let them stand at a fair distance apart, so that the ice mixture will have

in a pan or tub pound as much

effect individually ;

up the tub, and to evex-y

rough ice as required to fill

121bs. of ice add 31bs. of salt ; put in this mixture, taking cai’e it does not reach above one-third the height of the bottle, or else they will possibly break • from too much frigid force ; throw a wet cloth over the vessel ; in about two hours the water will be well frozen ; if in too compact a mass, let the bottles stand in cold watei', with the mouths open. A nother Mode . — Fill a gallon stone bottle with boiling hot water, leaving about a pint vacant ; when just cooling, add 2 oz. refined nitre, cork close, and down a deep well, by the hook on the chain in four hours draw up, and the water in the bottle will be a frozen mass. If let it through the handle ;