About Ice Cream.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 3 January 1940, Page 7

About Ice Cream.

More than 30,000,000 gallons of ice cream are consumed in Britain every year, and over £5,000,000 is spent annually by the public on the delicacy. According to Noel Vernon, writing in the current "Home Owner," ice-cream is not a modern food. Perhaps the earliest start, he suggests, was made when, in Biblical days, wines were cooled with snow and ice, as related in the Book of Proverbs. The first actual ice cream mixture, however, was invented in 1660 by an Italian named Cullelli. The writer contrasts the conditions under which ice crenm used to be made with those of to-day. Often it was manufactured in an odorous back-kitchen of a small restaurant, where a man or woman laboriously worked the machine, frequently touching the ingredients with dirty hands. To-day the mixture is pasteurised, and ifc is never touched by band. The article closes on a warning note: "Remember never to eat ice cream -when the body is hot — wait until you are cool. Eat it in small spoonfuls only —don't gulp it down, but allow it to melt in your mouth."