⅛ teaspoon salt

1 cup sugar

3 cups thin cream

Scald milk with coffee, and add one-half the sugar; without straining, use this mixture for making custard, with eggs, salt, and remaining sugar; add one cup cream and let stand thirty minutes; cool, strain through double cheese-cloth, add remaining cream, and freeze. Line a mould, fill with Italian Meringue, cover, pack in salt and ice, using two parts crushed ice to one part rock salt, and let stand three hours.

Italian Meringue

½ cup sugar

¼ cup water

1 tablespoon gelatine or

¼ teaspoon granulated gelatine

Whites 3 eggs