[milwaukee-electric] Re: Oldest custard stand

[Gary Schnabl]

On 6/1/2011 12:42 PM, Y Marti wrote:
> Ice Cream Parlors have been in the city since at least the mid 1860s.
> Later drug stores commonly had soda and ice cream fountains which were
> always popular. Frozen custard has been available since the 1880s and
> probably was found at these ice cream parlors.
>
> I don't think Clark's or even Gilles ever sold only frozen custard
> although it has been a specialty of their drive-in restaurants.
> Clark's was actually more of a restaurant that served everything and
> back in the 30s was located at Capitol&  Teutonia. Even Gilles is more
> known as a drive-in restaurant than solely a custard stand. More small
> shops and drive-ins started to sell frozen custard by the late 1930s
> and 1940s as specialty machines became more readily available.
>
> The first manufacturer of ice cream was Mansfield Ice Cream company
> which was established in 1907. Before they made it in a large scale
> facility it was made in small quantities directly in the parlors.
>
> Yance
I figured as much. There was a Rexall pharmacy at 42nd & Capitol 
(Carl's) that had an ice-cream/soda fountain until around 1952 or so, 
when its restaurant section was removed.

Much homemade ice cream recipes are really frozen custard, too, 
according to the 1.4% or more egg-yolk composition in addition to the 
minimum 10% milkfat composition (ice-cream definition).

The two custard stands on Capitol in my neighborhood referred to 
themselves as being frozen custard operations and were 12-month 
restaurants in contrast to Gilles, which was open only in warmer 
weather, around six months a year. So, my original question again is: 
When did the term "frozen custard" start being used for such stands or 
inside soda fountains or restaurants in Milwaukee?

Did the Gehl's dairy on Capitol next to the freight yard make frozen 
custard? They supplied butter and milk (and, often, ice-cream) for my 
parochial school--St John de Nepomuc--a few blocks away daily.


Gary
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Gary Schnabl
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