"Ice Cream! Ice Cream!" that fact is very plain-
We hear you scream—don't tell us so again!
"This well-known and agreeable luxury is particularly acceptable during
the hot sultry weather in July and August; indeed it is esteemed by many as a desirable
luxury at all seasons. Besides the numerous confectionaries and gardens where
it is sold, and which are much patronised by citizens in the summer evenings,
some who are not particular as to the quality of this article, are supplied by
colored men who take it round the city in covered pails. Gardens where Ice
Cream is sold, have been known in this city for at least half a century.
Much of the Ice Cream, however, sold in this city, is in truth Ice Milk
merely; which shows the difficulty of obtaining cream. How seldom is it that a
New Yorker enjoys that luxury in either tea or coffee!"
The Cries of New York is from Yale University Library Digital Collections HERE
The Cries of New York is from Yale University Library Digital Collections HERE
The basket he is carrying holds glasses and one spoon, which are
seen in use in this print of an ice cafe from Regency England.
The glasses are deceptive…the indent is only at the very top with the rest
filled in. During the Victorian era
before disposable bowls or ice cream cones, 'penny lick' glasses were used, and reused, by
street vendors. A penny for a scoop of ice cream or sorbet (in Naples), and then the customer would stand by the seller while licking the contents from the glass which would be returned.
In his other hand is an old ice cream maker - a sorbetiere. The cream mixture has just been set into the
ice in the wooden bucket.
National Ice Cream Day is this Sunday, July 20th.
Print: John Bull and his family at an ice cafe. 1815 (Newcastle University)
©2014 Patricia Bixler Reber
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