MAKING OF ICE CREAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAKING OF ICE CREAM.

KNOWN FOR CENTURIES

TRACES IN MANY LANDS

Ice 'cream, the popular summer refresher is said to have been known for centuries. In 1777 an advertisement of a man named Philip Lenzi rend: " Sweetmeats. preserves, marmalade, jellies. Tee cream may lie had almost any day. Also ice for refreshing wine."

In Biblical times, states a iccent writer, snow and ice were used to cool wines. Marco Polo, returning to Europe from Japan iri the fifteenth century served the Asiatic delicacy to his friends for the first time. But they did not know the delights of peach melbas, fruit sundaes and ice cream sodas.

Having heard of water ices made in Italy, Catherine de Medici in 1550 ordered them to be manufactured in her own kitchen. The Italians were early masters in the preparation of the cream, but it was left to France to give it. ils present name. It was formerly known as " cream ice " or " butter ice."

About 1774, a French chef engraved his master's coat-of-nrms upon n mould of chilled cream, which lie served on sultry August afternoons. The Due dc Charires. upon viewing ijie frozen masterpiece, cried out: "Oh, it is ice cream."

A negro. Augustas Jackson, who lived in Philadelphia about. 1832. seems to have been one of the first to make ice cream really popular, lie and his family charged about 5s per quart and had no difficulty in selling all they made. They were eventually unable to meet, the public demand for ice cream.