ICE CREAM FOR JULIUS CAESAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 27

ICE CREAM FOR JULIUS CAESAR

"Ice Cream Through the Ages' 1 was of ice cream and had had suP£!**°f the title of a paper presented at; the. It on his campaigns. The ptplemys Rotary Club at a recent Belfast meet- had also be,en fond" pf this Ivcm. ■ 0? ing by Rotarian Joseph Forte, reports iced drink and there are records of its the "Christian Science Monitor." being served at their banquets. It was only in the last few years, he Among the Roman?, Quintus. Ma*isaid, that researchers had l?een able mus left a recipe which was nothing, to get the facts together. In all the more or less th,an ice cream, and Julius hot countries in the ages past slaves Caesar was also toad of it M«rs° were employed bringing snow from the Polo found it m Chm* Jn 1254 A,R caverns in the mountains to be used,and it was introduced into thei Court ( during the warm weather. This snow Of France in 1537 and by King: Charles ■ wasused with the juice of fresh fruits |T's chef into, Englwd m 1«5. to make cool and refreshing drinks, About 177 ft several welMcnowfl firms which had come down in history a.s specialised in this j trade aiid «*Aly iced drinks. The Persians., Romans, founded the industry m .Britain. Egyptians, and Greeks, al? had ?layes America, Mr. Forte said, claimed to engaged in this "industry. have "invented." it, although it had In 333 B.C. Alexander the Great had &een introduced into the United States been a consumer of the. ancient form; fey an Italian. .