Ice cream specialists! by Jenniflower
Italy is well know for their varity of ice creams! Here is a recipe from a long time ago! :)Mrs. Glasse's recipe, 1747:
'To make ice cream. Take two pewter basons, one larger than the other; the inward one must have a close cover, into which you are to put your cream, and mix it with raspberries, or whatver you like best, to give it a flavour and a colour.
Sweeten it to your palate; then cover it close, and set it into the larger bason.
Fill it with ice, and a handful of salt: let it stand in this ice three quarters of an hour, then uncover it, and stir the cream well together: cover it close again, and let is stand half an hour longer, after that turn it into your plate.
These things are made at the pewterers."v
---The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy, Hannah Glasse, facsimile of the first edition, 1747 [Prospect Books: Devon] 1995 (p. 168)
It was incredibly hot and we were all sweating like crazy, so had to have icecreams to try and cool down. The problem with this icecream was, it was just sooo big! They gave me three scoops and I managed to finish one only.
I felt bad as I had to dump it into one of the dustbins on the Piazza Navonna, but I really couldnt finish it. Ah well.