Pewter Ice Cream Mould from England dated to 1890 on display at the York Castle Museum in York, England

This mould was shaped in the shape of a cucumber as it was made for cucumber ice cream. Savoury ice creams were a popular dish in Victorian Britain. One cook, Agnes Marshall, taught British women to make elaborate dishes through her courses and cookery books. Her "Parisian Cucumber Cream" recipe involved boiling cucumbers with sugar and lemon juice before cooling, adding angelica and freezing in this novelty mould. This recipe came from her publication "The Book of Ices" in 1885 and is credited with making ice cream fashionable in 19th century Britain.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

and he said “I was actually suggesting lunch first for your comfort on the assumption you wouldn’t want to get together with a man you’ve never met, in the woods with a gun.”

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

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