Antedating of "Ice Cream"

[Shapiro, Fred]

ice cream (OED 1744)

1743 _Daily Advertiser_ (London) 13 May (Burney Collection Newspapers)  AT the Widow's Coffee-House in Devereux-Court, now kept by KITT, from WHite's, will every Day be made after the best Manner, from Lemonade and Ice-Cream.


Fred Shapiro

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