Anyone for Ice-Cream?

Making quince jelly, visiting Rowan's blog and Ivan Day's Historic food
website, listening to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall extolling the delights
of "Treats from the Edwardian Country House" this morning on TV - all
have reminded me of some of the old cookery books which I have collected
over the years.

This morning's Fearnley-Whittingstall frolics were concerned with the
making of "iced creams" in all their decorative glory - and I was
reminded of this little book which I own. "The Book of Ices" by Mrs. A.
B. Marshall gives many ice-cream recipes, but also advises on the
colouring and decoration of said concoctions, plus their moulding into
all sorts of ornamental table pieces. Aren't they just delightful?

I think I might try some of these - now, where to find a swan or a
pineapple mould - and more particularly, the patience to both fill and
remove the iced creams from it - MUCH easier said than done! I think I will stick to the simple "bombe" shape - I have an old copper bombe mould which has not yet been experimented with. Watch this space for the results!

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Comments

[Britt-Arnhild]

You are busy blogging today :-) I love that :-) Marta and I will come over and make ice cfream together with you. Marta, the chef-to-be, has been busy baking all afternoon. My parents came to have coffee with us and got to taste both the chocolate folled pastries and the very special chocolate cake. She had almost no help from me while working :-)

[Rowan]

The illustrations in the old cookery books are delightful aren't they - especially the coloured ones. Treats from the Edwardian Country House is one of my favourite TV programmes, I wonder if it's available as a DVD. It's a while since I last caught it on Sky and I'd almost forgotten about it. I loved The Victorian Kitchen and The Wartime Kitchen and Garden that Ruth Mott and Harry Dodson did too. Did you ever see them?

[ardi]

I got such a kick out of reading this, Roz. In our house we call these kinds of projects "defective gene" projects. It takes hours and hours of work to make them and then seconds for them to disappear. Decorated cookies fall into that category, too. I suppose the downstairs people would have taken care of that in those times, though.