"ice[d] tea" -- and a fourth for ... furze?

[Joel S. Berson]

Having forgotten to check also for "ice tea", I now find:

Google Books misreads "&ce." (and "twice ten", in
"Paradise Lost"!  and "Ice-sea") as "ice"
tea.  As well as some Greek  (and Latin and
German) I will not attempt to transcribe.  And I
have (foolishly?) ignored hits in "Chemical Abstracts", dated 1620.

The "Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal", dated
1811, is alleged to have "Furze-tea.  See
Cochrane." in its index (page 547).  "Cochrane"--
a fourth for furze/gorse/whin?  I do not see
"coc?ran*" in the OED (except as a proper noun).

1842:  _Russia and the Russians, in 1842_, by
Johann Georg Kohl, Vol. I: _Petersburg_ (London:
Henry Colburn, 1842), page 42:
      "The Russians have accustomed themselves to
use a prodigious quantity of ice for domestic
purposes. They are fond of cooling all their
beverages with ice; indulge themselves freely in
the frozen juices, which are sold all the summer
in the streets of all their towns; and drink not
only ice-water, ice-wine, ice-beer, but even
ice-tea, throwing into a cup of tea a lump of ice instead of sugar."

The paragraph goes on to mention "[t]heir short,
but amazingly hot summer", and says "An
ice-cellar is therefore an indispensable
requisite in every family ...".  (The OED has
"ice-cellar" as N. Amer., dating it to a 1771
[?1770] English translation of Kalm's Travels in North America".)

This passage was apparently extracted into the
"New Monthly Magazine" in 1842.  These are the
earliest genuine hits I find in Google Books.

Google Books has no hits for "cooled tea" this
early, and in any case they -- and "cool tea",
which does appear earlier -- are not likely to be iced.

Joel

At 7/15/2009 05:58 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>TThe ADS-L archives contain over a hundred
>messages containing "ïced tea".  Browsing
>quickly, the earliest date I see is 1852, in a
>message of 29 Jul 1999 09:57 (from Barry, I believe):
>
>LADIES' REPOSITORY, January 1852, pg. 34, col. 1:
>Throughout the summer, ices are sold in the
>streets of every Russian town; and, not only iced
>water, iced wine, and iced beer, but even iced
>tea is drank in immense quantities.  [Making of America database]

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