SC - Ice

[Elaine Koogler]

And if you want to see one, and can make a trip to Colonial Williamsburg in
Virginia.  The Gardens at the Governor's Palace has a large "mound" built up from
dirt, etc, and covered, as I recall, with ivy or some other ground cover.  There
is a door in the front to provide access.  Really neat!

Kiri

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/22/00 11:20:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
>
> << One quick question:  Does anyone on the list have any references to how
>  medieval cooks kept things cold, since the invention of the refrigerator was
>  not to come about for many, many, many years?   >>
>
> Although I don't have the references immediately handy, ice houses were
> common throughout the middle east during period. They were also common
> throughout the Western world until the invention of refrigeration. Ice blocks
> are simply cut out of lakes and ponds in the winter and stored in ice houses
> in saw dust, etc., throughout the year. Such blocks literally keep for months
> before melting. I think that Food in History or The History of Food has a
> segment dealing with this subject. Any large manor house would have had its
> ice house and commercial ice houses also existed.
>
> Ras
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