[Sca-cooks] Summer period desserts

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I need that info as well.  I've started bring the ice shaver and syrups to events, I'd like to have some kind of historical firepower to back me up.  No, I'm not the Costume Police, I'm the Food Police! <GGG>

Selene

grizly at mindspring.com wrote:

> I'd love to have the reference/bibliographic info on that assertion.  As others will point out, our collective memory here ascribes such ice based sweets to the Italian 1500's.  Any other information with reference would be gleefully received.  modern Magazines, however are too often not so scholastically structured as to do extensive research on their assertions.
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> pacem et bonum,
> niccolo
>
> sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
> > Greetings all!
> In reading one of my modern culinary subscribtions, I read that Gelato, and
> various forms of granita go all the way back to the Roman Empire. That could
> work for anyone planning a summer feast with  limited space. As long as you
> have an adequate freezer, there's no reason why you couldn't make a large
> batch, freeze, scoop and re-freeze. Your portion control could be any size
> scoop(s) you want, you could do the same with sorbets or sherbets as well.
> Just an idea.
>
> Finnebhir