Ice Cream

Victorian ice cream recipes from antique sources, illustrated with vintage ice cream clip art from 19th century magazines, newspapers, antique cookbooks, and ephemera.

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Authentic Victorian Ice Cream Recipes from Cookery and Housekeeping, 1886

Authentic Victorian Ice Cream Recipes from Cookery and Housekeeping, 1886

I have not yet attempted the following recipes from my copy of Cookery and Housekeeping, by A Veteran Housekeeper. I have made, with satisfactory results, an old-fashioned vanilla ice cream from 1889 that was published in The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve it, by Alessandro Filippini, 1889 The [...]

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Victorian Hand-Crank Ice Cream Recipes from an Antique Cook Book

Victorian Hand-Crank Ice Cream Recipes from an Antique Cook Book

The following Victorian hand-crank ice cream maker recipes are from The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve it, by Alessandro Filippini, 1889. Alessandro Filippini was the chef of the world famous Delmonico’s in New York. And if you thought that Victorian ice cream flavors were limited to vanilla, chocolate [...]

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