orange blossoms, caramel, chocolate, tea,
coffee, and even rye bread.
The First Recipes for Ice Cream
Neige de fleurs d’orange (“Snow of Orange
Flowers”)
You must take sweet cream, and put
thereto two handfuls of powdered sugar,
and take petals of orange flowers and
mince them small, and put them in your
cream...and put all into a pot, and put your
pot in a wine cooler; and you must take ice,
crush it well and put a bed of it with a
handful of salt at the bottom of the cooler
before putting in the pot.... And you must
continue putting a layer of ice and a
handful of salt, until the cooler is full and
the pot covered, and you must put it in the
coolest place you can find, and you must
shake it from time to time for fear it will
freeze into a solid lump of ice. It will take