• Boil a pound of sugar and a quart of water for five minutes;
• Strain
• Take the leaves from twelve stalks of mint
• Chop fine and pound them to a pulp
• Add them and the juice of two lemons to the sugar and water
• Strain
• Turn into an ice-cream freezer and stir now and then until the mixture is frozen like wet snow
• Serve in punch-glasses

One Hundred & One Beverages by May E. Southworth, 1904