Window display #8 Ice cream and cheese making tools

This window display is dedicated to ice cream and cheese making. At n.1 we find a large 1880 wooden sorbet maker, at n.2 a field icebox used to bring fresh ice cream to the officers in the field, at n.3 a very rare eighteenth-century copper sorbet holder, while at n.4 there is the work of Grifoni, which is the first modern text entirely dedicated to ice cream. At n. 5 we can see a beautiful series of ice molds and at n. 7 another series of sorbet and ice molds ranging from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Among the most important works contained in the display case, there is the very rare sorbet mold dating back to 1653 (n. 8). At n. 9, on the other hand, we have a very rare French ice cream holder from the early nineteenth century in copper, internally lined with cork within a glass cavity, a true engineering jewel. At n.10 you can instead admire a nineteenth-century thorn that was used to break the rennet during the production of cheeses, while at n.11, in the lower part of the display case, you can see a series of nineteenth-century butter churns of various types (drum, box or barrel). The very rare first edition of Ottolini’s work, the “Prodrome around how to improve the cheese factory”, is exhibited at n.12. This is the first work in which all the production of Grana cheese is scientifically researched and studied, and the author here returns a great deal of information on which were the workshops that produced Grana in the Italian Lodigiano area and how they worked. At n.13 we can see a series of rare and unusual churns with glass body for domestic use, produced in the first half of the twentieth century. At n.14 a series of ancient wooden butter molds make a fine show.

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