Negative Space: refrigerators
- Ice cream from your home freezer
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You can make great ice cream with whole eggs, egg yolks, and egg whites. You can even make it without eggs at all. All you need is syrup and cream—and a refrigerator with a freezer or a standalone home freezer.
- Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1928 Frigidaire
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The 1928 manual and cookbook, Frigidaire Recipes, assumes a lot about then-modern society that could not have been assumed a few decades earlier.
- Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1942 Cold Cooking
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Iceless refrigeration had come a long way in the fourteen years since Frigidaire Recipes. And so had gelatin!
- Revolution: Home Refrigeration
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Nasty, brutish, and short. Unreliable power is unreliable civilization. When advocates of unreliable energy say that Americans must learn to do without, they rarely say what we’re supposed to do without.
More Information
- What is a refrigerator tray in older recipes?
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“For freezing ice cream or other confections in a refrigerator’s freezer area, a refrigerator tray was a rectangular, shallow, open container. The ice cube tray (often provided with the refrigerator) began, around the mid-to-late thirties, to be fitted with a removable divider so that it doubled as the refrigerator tray.”
- Refrigerators Through the Decades
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“If you’ve ever been without power in your house, you know just how suddenly keeping the food in the refrigerator cold becomes a necessity. Can you imagine living in a time before refrigerators? Warm summer months meant that families would gamble with safe food consumption, and any families living in poverty were rarely able to afford ice.”
