ICE CREAM HISTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18879, 29 November 1924, Page 6 (Supplement)

ICE CREAM HISTORY.

There is little doubt, says an exchange, that the art of making ice cream originated in Italy, .possibly before 1600, Thence ice cream advanced in a slow but triumphant march, taking sometimes fifty years to cross a boundary, to France, to England, and then America.

It was known in England under its present name in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth Raff aid published " The Experienced Housekeeper " in London in 1769, and she gives a recipe under the heading " Ice Cream," to which she appends the advice: "Dip your tin in warm water when you turn it out." This* first refereuco to ice cream under that name tells how to make an apricot ice, though any other fruit will do, says Mistress iiaffald. Before her time there was Lady Mary Wortley, who, in a letter written in 1710, shows a knowledge of the dish.

A NOVEL BATHING WRAP.

A novel bathing cloak which serves two other purposes as well is the latest novelty to bo introduced for beach wear. It is made of heavy terry towelling in bright shades, and finished all round the edges with a deep fringe, and completed with a cord and tassels for the waist.

After it has been in use as a cloak from I the water's edge to the bathing tent, it I is meant to be used as a . towel, and. I finally, it folds up four-square (irid give,-, excellent service as a holdall. It may he had in stripes or plain effects with contrasting borders, and the colours range through all the bright hues to black.