Meanings
plural icecream-makers
- Alternative form of ice cream maker.
- A machine used to make ice cream.
TOY: ICECREAM-MAKER still in box
2015 April 28, “Classified”, in Bradenton Herald, volume 93, number 226, page 7C, column 64 more examples
INSTANT ICECREAM-MAKER / the quick 'n' easy modern way to make delicious old-fashioned real ice-cream at home—in just 15 minutes!
1977 April 3, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Bombay: […] [F]or […] Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., by S. G. Joshi at The Times of India Press, page 34Process in an electric icecream-maker (sorbetière) or pour into a round cake tin and place in freezer.
1983, Margaret Fulton, Restaurant Dishes of the Sorld, London: Octopus Books Limited, →ISBN, page 33, column 2Looked at in succession, they provide a useful rough guide to the general acceptance of such mechanical innovations as the refrigerator or the gas cooker, to say nothing of Mr Spong’s tinned-meat mincer or the Frezo! icecream-maker.
1992, Christina Hardyment, “Mrs Beeton’s Kitchen”, in Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements in Association with the National Trust, Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers in association with the National Trust, →ISBN, page 125‘What is your life’s work?’ / ‘Me? I’m a demonstrator.’ / ‘Demonstrating what?’ / ‘All sorts of things.’ She shrugged her slender shoulders. ‘Icecream-makers. Carpet-shampooers. I’m promoting a brilliant new microwave just now, at Bainbridges, and . . .’
1997, Jennifer Curry, Peacocks’ Acre, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 80 - A company or person that makes ice cream.
Occupation. […] Icecream-maker
1894, South Australia. Statistical Register. 1893. Compiled from Official Records., Adelaide, S.A.: […] C. E. Bristow, […], page 113 more examples
FIRST-CLASS CAKE-BAKER AND ORNAmenter and icecream-maker wants situation. Address G. PALM, 921 Mission st.
1895 March 10, The San Francisco Call, volume LXXVII, number 90, San Francisco, Calif., page 8, column 2They were followed by northern Italian, mostly Genoese, craftsmen, peddlers, and service tradesmen, such as Francesco Rossi, Toronto’s first confectioner and icecream-maker, and the Canessa brothers, Nicholas and Peter, brush-makers.
1985, John E. Zucchi, “Italian Hometown Settlements and the Development of an Italian Community in Toronto, 1875-1935”, in Robert F. Harney, editor, Gathering Place: Peoples and Neighbourhoods of Toronto, 1834-1945 (Studies in Ethnic and Immigration History), Toronto, Ont.: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, →ISBN, page 123This tea salon was, until August 2007, the main retail outlet for Thomas Dammann, the son of a German icecream-maker, who opened his first shop in the rue du Cardinal Lemoine (now his ‘factory’) in 1987.
2013, Bill Gillham, Parisians’ Paris, 3rd edition, London: Pallas Athene (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 189, columns 1–2
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