The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-10
ANCIENTS WERE FOND OF ICE CREAM
Henry III, Louis XIV, Marco Polo, Cath
crime de Medici All Ate It--lOO, 900, 900
Gallons Sold Yearly in u S.

place of ice for chilling drinks. The
snow is saturated with water and
packed down. After it has frozen into
slushy ice they use it for packing
drinks and desserts to be chilled by
allowing them to stand in the ice un-
til cold.
Have you ever heard of the drink,
"MacedOine"? 1t was named for
Alexander the Great because he was
so fond of it, and it still retains the
| name.
During the days Of Henry III of
France snow and ice were used for
freezing foods and drinks for the
royal table
Finally the Italians discovered that
if saltpetre was added to the ice the
liquid would freeze more solid. They
next tried turning the dish contain
ing the liquid while it stood packed
in the ice, and they found that it froze
much more quickly. They then be-
gan to make frozen ices out of wine
and fruit juices in the same way that
we freeze creams and ices today.
Ices are still made in this way in
the Orient but all ice cream must be
shipped from the United States, for
our country is the home of the ice
cream industry.
4 FavOrite of the Ancients.
Catherine de Medici of France pre-
ferred Italian cooking to that Of the
French so when she returned to
France from Italy in 1850 she brought
her Italian cooks with her. About 100
years later. in 1880, an Italian, Con-
treaux, who owned famous cafe I'm
Paris. began to manufacture water
ices.
The earliest dish resembling ice
cream was made by Roman, Quin-
tus Maximus Gurges, who had been |
nicknamed "The Glutton," because he
thought so much about food. Gurges |
must have been wonderful chef: he
has a recipe very much like the mod
ern ones used in his notebook.
When first discovered as a relish
ing dish ice cream was known as but
ter ice, and then later as cream ice.
as it is still called in England. Cream
Ice was first known in Paris in IVA
1t is thought that the recipes for
water and milk ices we're
brought to Europe from Asia, by Mar
co Polo. who visited Japan in the
11th century.
Cream ice is mentioned i'm an ac-
count of banquet given by Charles
OF England. 1t was made by a
French cook named De Mireo. The
KING was so pleased with the frozen
milk" as it was first called that be
pensloned the cook with twenty
pounds year, provided he would
keep the recipe a secret and make
The dish for no one else. Well might
Charles / have been called 'The
ilutton." Some historians, on the
'ther hand, claim that the first dish
'l Ice cream was set before Duc de
Jhartres in IVA by his chef, who had
iepicted the Dukes coat-of-arms on
he cream
Ice Cream for Louis XIV.
Al an entertainment given by Louis
XIV dessert resembling a freshly
AID egg was served in silver gilt CUPS.
At first the guests were so surnrisad
II the strange dessert that thew fail
"a 10 touch it. Then some brave ner.
on discovered it was de,;oiors
weetmeat, hard and cold. and so was
Introduced to his honor. ice cream
English cookbooks $50 years ago
ave recipes for making cream ice
nd French cook. Clermont in Ion-
on' explained explicitly just how to
make it.
1t is not known definitely where
&c cream was first made. but II is
ertaln that it was the Germans who
lrst showed the English how to mold !
ce cream into fancy shapes and mo,ds
uch as we have today q