NYPL cookbooks (LONG!!)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>      John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA has: "Tutti-frutti is also an ice cream
> flavored with various fruits.  The term is from the Italian, meaning "all
> fruits," and in America dates to 1875 in print.
>     This (which cites another work) is from THE HOME COOK BOOK (1875), pg.
> 212:
>
> _TATTI FRUTTI._  From "In the Kitchen."
>      A rich vanilla cream with candied cherries, raisins, currants and
> citron.  The fruit must be added when the cream is nearly frozen.

The OED has _tutti-frutti_ back to 1834.


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