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What's ice cream then?

• adzm 8mo ago
  Yeah, this article brings up a good point per se, but then defeats itself with nonsensical analysis and examples
• georgefrowny 8mo ago
  It used to be iced cream, which is more descriptive. Ice cream is a shortened pronunciation.
  • kllrnohj 8mo ago
    When was called it "iced cream"? The first published recipe for ice cream in 1718 called it "ice cream", not "iced cream". The first recorded mention in English at all was in 1671 and there, again, it was "ice cream", not "iced cream".
    • georgefrowny 8mo ago
      Note that in the 1718 text it is not actually called "ice cream", but the recipe is titled "To ice cream". I.e. "ice" is used as a verb, the result presumably being "cream that has been iced". In the same work, there is also Chocolate-Cream so there was a choice not to write Ice-Cream there. There are some attestations to it from 1732 onwards: https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22iced+cream%22&sort=date https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22iced+cream%... The attestations for ice cream (or often ice-cream, as these open compound words used to often be hyphenated -- the loss of that hyphen eventually leading to articles like this one) are much, much more and much messier, not least because someone tagged every edition of The Gentleman's Magazine as being published in 1731 -- the Internet Archive is a fantastic resource but I wish they'd allow crowd sourcing corrections for metadata. Excuse the m-dashes. You may be right that it was mostly called ice cream at first and eventually at last. To be honest I took the Wiktionary etymology at its word.
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• LgWoodenBadger 8mo ago
  And even more confounding, what's "water ice?" https://www.ritasice.com https://www.ritasice.com