{"id":120729,"date":"2023-07-13T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=120729"},"modified":"2023-07-13T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:46:18","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-one-scoop-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=120729","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae One Scoop\u2026 Or Two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=120729\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=120729\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-120730 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download-6-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download-6-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download-6.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were at a dinner hosted by Dolley Madison at the White House in November, 1812, your dessert would have been quite unusual for the time.<\/p>\n<p>There may have been the customary assortment of pastries, cakes, cookies. But, in addition to these delights (or instead of), there would have been ice cream!<\/p>\n<p>There were those who thought that the gracious Dolley had actually invented this delicious wonder.<\/p>\n<p>And others even thought that she had been the first person to ever serve this treat at a White House table.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Not true!<\/p>\n<p>Since I cannot even remember when first I tasted this cooling refreshment, I began to think about when it was actually first served at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>My heartfelt thanks go to our first First Lady, the indomitable Martha Washington,<\/p>\n<p>Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was actually the first to serve ice cream in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, who happened to be President, loved ice cream. It was considered to be his favorite dessert.<\/p>\n<p>In an article by John L. Smith, Jr. in the Journal of the American Revolution,\u201d he writes that, \u201cWashington bought an ice cream serving spoon and two \u2018dble tin Ice Cream moulds.\u2019 This was followed by \u20182 Iceries Compleat, twelve ice plates and thirty-six ice pots.\u2019 An \u2018ice pot\u2019 was a small cup used for holding the ice cream since it was more liquid in colonial times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is further proof that Martha Washington was the first to enhance the white House parties with ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarie M. Hicks writes in the Montpelier\u2019s Digital Doorway, that \u201cAbigail Adams wrote that at Martha Washington\u2019s Friday drawing rooms, \u2018she gives Teas, Coffe, Cake, Lemonade &amp; Ice Creams in summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it had been reported that President Washington spent about two hundred dollars on ice cream in the summer of 1790 which is about six thousand dollars today. He must have really loved this chilly dessert.<\/p>\n<p>Only the wealthy could afford this confection. You needed to own a cow that was only used to make ice cream, because you needed a lot of milk. A cow could not give enough milk for both ice cream and then have some left to sell for a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Then you needed to be very wealthy in order to purchase imported sugar and salt.<\/p>\n<p>If that is not daunting enough, ice was absolutely necessary. Where would you get it? Of course, from a frozen river from which it was cut during the coldest winter temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>And it had to be stored.<\/p>\n<p>So, you needed an ice house.<\/p>\n<p>But a mere ice house was not sufficient. You couldn\u2019t just dump it in the ice house. The ice had to be insulated. So it was carefully layered with straw or sawdust.<\/p>\n<p>After you had this all under control, you needed a lot of time to make the ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>I found a recipe for making the kind of ice cream that would have been served at the president\u2019s table, but just reading it made me too tired to copy it. Let me say that it took about twenty steps to create this delicacy at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Henry \u201cLight Horse Harry\u201d Lee, member of the Continental Congress and former major general of the Continental Army, said in his eulogy of George Washington \u201cfirst in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I add, with the greatest respect, first to serve ice cream in the White House, courtesy of the superb First Lady, Martha Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<br \/>\nSERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist If you were at a dinner hosted by Dolley Madison at the White House in November, 1812, your dessert would have been quite unusual for the time. 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