sherbet
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He illuminated the auditorium with candles and converted the private boxes into buffets stocked with alcohol, coffee, hot chocolate, sherbet and carved meats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Mandalay Beach, also known as Oxnard State Beach, has sherbet sunsets over its dunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
Cool off with this family-friendly nonalcoholic cocktail that features a refreshing combination of homemade orange sherbet bobbing about in orange juice and seltzer.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2023
Olaf Danilsen’s lighting bathes the stage and backdrop in sherbet or sorbet hues.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
It didn’t to Jonah—he’d always known he was adopted, and as far as he was concerned, it wasn’t much more of a deal than his liking mint chocolate-chip ice cream while Katherine liked orange sherbet.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The 800-square-foot shop serves 40 flavors of ice cream alongside sherbets, sorbets and fresh-fruit freezes; I opted for two scoops of strawberry cheesecake.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018
Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2016
There were savoury sausages, and sweet sherbets of every flavour, with coinciding lollipops to dip in them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Ice-cream novelties in the forms of bananas, daisies, ducks, rabbits, other flora & fauna were restricted to five varieties per month; ices and sherbets to two flavors per month.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, or orange-ices are generally used for sherbets with liqueurs such as curaçao, maraschino, noyau, etc., combined with kirsch, rum, or champagne.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
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