[Sca-cooks] period iced foods

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>I can't remember where it was but
>James 1st was reputed to have paid £1 a dish for 12 of his gentlemen to have
>ice cream ( about $1.50 then!) and they talk about inflation

About $1.50?  No way.  Multiply by a hundred at least for modern
dollars... noblemen typically had incomes of around $2k or higher, to
give you an idea, and the price you cite (1 pound) was, if I recall
correctly, around the lower end of the price range for a horse.

K.

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