The real sherbet I was given (in a native house at Shiraz) consisted simply of a glass of cold water with a lump of sugar in it--_eau sucre_, in fact.

But Persian sherbets are of endless varieties and flavours.

Preserved syrups of raspberry and pineapple, the juice of the fresh fruit of lemon, orange, and pomegranate, are all used in the manufacture of sherbet, which is, however, never effervescing.

The water in which it is mixed should be icy cold, and has, when served in Persia, blocks of frozen snow floating on the surface.

The "sherbet-i-bidmishk," or "willow-flower sherbet," made from flowers of a particular kind of willow distilled in water, is perhaps the most popular of all among the higher classes, and is the most expensive.
The hunting-expedition (the Shagird, who was of a communicative disposition, informed us) consisted of three parties located at villages each within a couple of farsakhs of Murchakhar.