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ICE CREAM
Considerable pressure has been exerted in order to improve the purity of ice cream*
It is evident that fortunes have been made by certain manufacturers, mostly foreign gentlemen,
of a product which has been sold under the courtesy title of ice cream, but which was, in
fact, little more than an emulsion of a greasy substance with sweetening and flavouring,
the ice cream, as sold, being nothing more than a pleasant looking mass of minute bubbles of
air, similar to a shaving lather, and composed of much the same ingredients.
There are indications that the Ministry of Pood will soon prescribe a minimum
standard for ice cream.
Samples are taken regularly and submitted to the bacteriologist for examination.
Generally speaking, now that the manufacture of ice cream is usually on a large
scale, and by firms who are jealous of their reputation, the product is very good indeed.
The small retailer now usually sells his cream in the closed and unopened packages in
which he receives it, and it is better so. No further cases of the barrow boy who keeps
his unsold cream under his bed for the next day*s sale have been discovered, and the clause
which the department succeeded in having inserted in the West Ham Corporation Act, 1937
has been most effective.
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