PREFACE
The older ones of us look back on the ice-cream of our youth as a luxury, to be expected on festivals and holidays. The rising generation, however, is coming to look on it as a food. Once the manufacture of the confectionery shop and the household, it is now produced in great quantities by concerns devoting themselves to it entirely, making it by highly developed standardized processes. A line of special machinery has been perfected for its manufacture. The subject is taught in the colleges. Yet the home manufacture has not passed and should not pass; rather should the product be made more frequently and in larger quantity in the household.
No longer must one offer an excuse for a book on ice-cream. This book is made for class-room and laboratory use, growing out of the author’s teaching experience; the manufacturer’s interest has been set forth; yet it is hoped that the housewife will find directions for her use.
Acknowledgment is due the following parties for valuable assistance either for the illustrations, or definite information or helpful criticisms: Henry Vogt Machine Co., Louisville, Ky.; Wheats Ice Cream Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; DeLaval Separator Co., New York, N. Y.; Jamison Cold Storage Door Co., Hagerstown, Md.; Merrell-Soule Co., Syracuse, N. Y.; The Ekenberg Co., Cortland, N. Y.; Chapin-Sacks Mfg. Co., Washington, D. C.; The Creamery Package Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill.; York Mfg. Co., York, Pa.; Davis-Watkins Dairymen’s Mfg. Co., Chicago Ill.; J. G. Cherry Co., Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Emery Thompson Machine and Supply Co., New York, N. Y.; T. D. Cutler, Ice-Cream Trade Journal, New York, N. Y.; Brunswick Refrigerating Co., New Brunswick, N. J.; L. O. Thayer, The International Confectioner, New York, N. Y.; Mojonnier Bros., Chicago, Ill.; Sharples Separator Co., West Chester, Pa.; Joseph Burnett Extract Co., Boston, Mass.; Nafis Glass Co., Chicago, Ill.; J. E. Reyna, Dept. of Drawing, New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. The following members of the Dairy Dept. of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.: W. A. Stocking, H. E. Ross, T. J. McInerney, W. E. Ayres, G. C. Dutton, H. C. Troy, E. S. Guthrie, G. C. Supplee.
W. W. FISK.
Ithaca, N. Y.,
March 1, 1919.