The ice book : being a compendious & concise history of everything connected with ice from its first introduction into Europe as an article of luxury to the present time; with an account of the artificial manner of producing pure & solid ice, and a valuable collection of the most approved recipes for making superior water ices and ice creams at a few minutes' notice / by Thomas Masters.

  • Masters, Thomas.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The ice book : being a compendious & concise history of everything connected with ice from its first introduction into Europe as an article of luxury to the present time; with an account of the artificial manner of producing pure & solid ice, and a valuable collection of the most approved recipes for making superior water ices and ice creams at a few minutes' notice / by Thomas Masters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    and accelerating the labour bestowed upon bringing its object to perfection. We have, by the aid of art, cities brought within the compass of a few hours that were formerly beyond a day’s journey; and even the float- ing shadows of the atmosphere, that scarcely start into being ere they again subside, can he daguerreotyped on the easel of the artist, and thus the fleeting vision of the moment may be perpetuated through all time. Art has, however, not rested content with providing the luxuries and preparing the necessaries of humanity—it has dared to imitate nature in the production of its most wonderful phenomena, and ice, once the sole produce of her mighty laboratory, has been made by the skill and enterprise of her subject—man. In the midst of summer, on