Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The dread of red?
This perhaps has more to do with the mistrust of foreigners in general that anything untoward being added for colour or flavour. Recipes from the mid 18th century recommend nothing more sinister than strawberries. Not that you much for your penny with a penny-lick, just that, a lick. I have seen the apparatus; glass cup-cake shaped objects with either a very shallow concave top or one a little deeper for the twopenny-lick. With nothing but a bit of cloth to wipe them over ready for the next customer. (I have probably made that last bit up, the last customer would have ensured that it was 'clean' for the next)
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Paul - is this the bathing one:
BATHING FROM SEASHORE AFTER 7AM:
Police Constable DUNFORD - gave evidence in case of 2 men bathing from the seashore after 7am
(Dover Express 18.8.1916 p.25 col.4)
never heard of anyone selling ice cream out of hours !
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Red colouring - Cochineal ?? for ice-cream ??
The cochineal (/kɒtʃɨˈniːl/ koch-i-neel or /ˈkɒtʃɨniːl/ koch-i-neel; Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the crimson-colour dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico, this insect lives on cacti from the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients.
The insect produces carminic acid that deters predation by other insects. Carminic acid, which occurs as 17-24% of the weight of the dry insects, can be extracted from the insect's body and eggs and mixed with aluminum or calcium salts to make carmine dye (also known as cochineal).[1] Carmine is today primarily used as a food colouring and for cosmetics.
The carmine dye was used in Central America in the 15th century for colouring fabrics and became an important export good during the colonial period. After synthetic pigments and dyes such as alizarin were invented in the late 19th century, natural-dye production gradually diminished. Health fears over artificial food additives, however, have renewed the popularity of cochineal dyes, and the increased demand has made cultivation of the insect profitable again,[2] with Peru being the largest exporter.
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I wonder if the ice cream seller was a left winger and the reference to red was political? extreme reaction for someone not being a fan of his ice cream?
Audere est facere.
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As we grow cacti in our greenhouses, we are quite familiar with this pest, the mealy bug !!
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Yes I think that is the one Kath as I was looking at 1916 the other day !!
Been nice knowing you :)
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14th Sept 1900 DEx re multiple names given to children at Buckland....
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i wonder who ordered the half pint of gin?
as for saponaceous toothpaste!!
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Moving the Buckland Yew Tree (this huge feat was on the 5th March 1880) :
report from Dover Express January 1900:
There is an ancient yew tree here in Tilmanstone churchyard, estimated between 1600 and 2000 yrs of age. Damaged during the hurricane it lost some limbs but nothing much can kill a yew tree, hence the fact there are so many ancient ones, especially in the South of England.
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The yew in the churchyard at Barfrestone (in which the church bell sits) has been dated to about 1070. I think they used ultrasound to count the rings in the trunk.
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Gosh Kath really enjoyed reading through some of those articles.
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Thanks Jan, your comments appreciated ! Old newspapers are so fascinating...
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D Ex Jan 1900:
GANE, F. W. Bootmaker, Fishmonger Lane, Dover - Pair of boot/shoe stretchers with name on (in Dover Museum)
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Lost a cutting I found at the weekend from 1875 which could have been made into a limerick...
"Two Jews from Ponteprid were fined 5 Shillings by Gwilliam Williams for mending windows on a Sunday" !
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I was pained, on reading the news
(though a window on the mores of the Jews)
two being fined 5 shillings were amazed
their crime was that on Sunday they glazed
they now know, when in Ponteprid, to do as we do's
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