[Sca-cooks] medeival refrigeration

[david friedman]

>Again the source is Elizabeth David's Harvest of the
>Cold Months. She covers more than ice cream in the
>volume.
>
>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
>"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:snipped
>>>  But we were talking about cold.
>>
>>  Perhaps using the natural preservation benefits of cold weather was so
>>  commonplace that nobody bothered to mention it? I know around here, those
>>  of us who use our porches as wintertime freezer expansion don't discuss it
>>  amongst ourselves, because we're all familiar with it. Mostly it gets
>>  brought up in discussions with people from warmer climes.
>>  > Margaret
>>
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On a tangent, the _Ain I Akbari_ describes a form of chemical
refrigeration (to get cold water in the summer), presumably as a
party trick. Sixteenth century Mughal.
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