Georgian Ices

French and Italian confectioners came to England and set up shops in London in the 1760s. In these first ice-cream parlours you could enjoy an ice cream or take a larger quantity home for a special occasion. One vendor, the Italian Domenico Negri, had a shop called ‘The Pot and Pineapple’ in Berkeley Square where he sold ‘all sorts of English, French, and Italian wet and dry sweetmeats’, according to his trade card. One of his apprentices was Frederick Nutt, who published his fabulous book The Complete Confectioner in 1789. Nutt gives 32 recipes for ice cream and 24 for water ices.