This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Put a little vanilla ice cream in a glass cup; on this dispose two macaroons, broken in bits; on the macaroons set half a preserved or branched peach and fill the space left by the peach stone with red bar-le-duc currants. Fill the space between the peach and the sides of the cup with ice cream or whipped cream and serve.

Put a rounding spoonful of vanilla ice cream in a tall glass and on it dispose three or four slices of preserved peach, with some of the syrup; above this set a second tablespoonful of ice cream; sprinkle with a few pecan nut meats, cut in lengthwise slices; above the nuts pipe a little "well" of whipped cream, and in this well dispose a teaspoonful of bar-le-duc currants. Serve at once.
Line a cup or long-stemmed glass with sliced peaches; fill the cup with vanilla ice cream and pour raspberry sauce over the whole.
 
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