Ann, Lady Fanshawe
Ann Fanshawe, Lady Fanshawe | |
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe, by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen | |
| Born | Ann Harrison 25 March 1625 parish of St Olave Hart Street, London, England |
| Died | 20 January 1680 (aged 54) probably at Ware, Hertfordshire, England |
| Resting place | Ware, Hertfordshire |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | memoir, recipes |
| Notable works | Memoir |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Sir John Harrison (father) |
Ann Fanshawe, Lady Fanshawe (25 March 1625 – 20 January 1680) was an English memoirist and cookery author. Her recipe for ice cream is thought to be the earliest recorded in Europe.
Her ice cream recipe is recorded as follows: Take three pints of the best cream, boil it with a blade of Mace or else perfume it with orange flower water or Ambergreece, sweeten the Cream, with sugar let it stand till it is quite cold, then put it into Boxes, ether of Silver or tinn, then take, Ice chopped into small pieces and put it into a tub and set the Boxes in the Ice covering them all over, and let them stand in the Ice two hours, and the Cream Will come to be Ice in the Boxes, then turn them out into a salvar with some of the same seasoned Cream, so serve it up to the Table.