ICE CREAM
USE OF ICE ANCIENT CUSTOM
The use of ice for culinary purposes is a very ancient custom. Alexander the Great was fond of iced drinks; and Nero is said to have sent his slaves to the mountains for ice to cool his fruit salads. The discovery of water ice was made by Marco Polo. In the fourteenth century an Italian named Mountalenti made a fortune by manufacturing frozen desserts. The introduction of ice cream was made by a French chef, named Gerald Tissain, in 1640, to Charles 1., who granted him a pension of twenty pounds a year for life. Tissain improved the water ices served at the banquets of Catherine de Medici. When he lost his pension on the death of Charles 1., he sold his recipe to the Cafe Neapolitan, in Paris. That is the reason why certain ice creams are called by the name of this cafe.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 65, 20 December 1946, Page 6
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152ICE CREAM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 65, 20 December 1946, Page 6
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