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Show ICE AND ICES. Though tho ancient Greeks nnd iloninns ueoiI ice for ti ' V purposes,, they know nothing of "icea." Theso wero introduced into Franco from Italy about 1000, and known at first ns "fromage glaccs," iced chooses, nit! nigh they wcro mado of strnwborriea, apricots and bo forth, and contained not n drop of cream. From 170. tho uso of "glaccs" in the plural was sanctioned sanc-tioned by tho academy, but not hc-foro hc-foro 18s!5 did ' 'no r laco" foreo its way into recognized acceptance. "Ices" nro referred to from tinio to time in t'-o eighteenth century in English people's letters from abroad. "Iced creams," howovor, wcro known -s early ns tho year when William of rniigo enmo over, mul by tho middlo of tho eighteenth century cen-tury "ico cream" figured in cookery, books. Uostou lludgct. |