In the XIX century in Russia there were special rules of street trade ice cream. About it and what varieties are offered to the Muscovites in the materials Glavarhiva.
the Problem of sanitation when cooking and the ice cream was especially concerned of the city authorities. To restore order came from the Commission of public health. So, in the notification of the Governor of Moscow, the Moscow mayor dated July 23, 1902, it was stated that the traders of ice cream, there were only three or four portions of the Cup and a few bone spoons for a large number of buyers. After using the cups and spoons were not cleaned, which contributed to the spread of various infections.
Also in the Commission’s report for April, 1903, described exactly how the sellers were preparing my ice cream. Mostly this occurred in inappropriate conditions: the enterprising trader had taken a room, where there was access to the cellar with ice, sometimes not paying attention to poor sanitary conditions.
after Preparing the mixture for the ice cream, the ice cream man went early in the morning to the nearest pub, where they cooked it on the stove in a metal tin container. Then drain through a sieve directly into a metal mold and was frozen spinning in the ice — usually in the yard of the same Inn.
To prepare used eggs, milk, sugar, berry juice. In the pharmaceutical stores we bought special paint and essences. Ice and snow was taken from the Moscow river, ditches, ponds, backyards, and streets.
Traded ice-cream immediately after cooking — it is often sold in special vans. On some boulevards, squares, markets, delicacy sold in stationary tents for sale water and fruit. To put the ice cream could in a container provided by the buyer. Offered Sorbetto (or sorbet), polimeraznoi (granite) and the actual ice cream is thick mass, which could take various forms in accordance with the wishes of the confectioner.
Such conditions are not satisfied the authorities. Establish a process for the sale of ice cream took Duke Sergei Alexandrovich he gave the order for the speedy development of mandatory regulations for the sale of dessert.
Thus, in 1904, decreed that space, which makes ice cream and the utensils in which it is sold, must be clean. Spoons for cooking can be just hard metal of the oxidizable metal or with a suitable coating (tin, Nickel, silver). All the ingredients must also be of high quality, and ice and clean snow. To batch trade is allowed only glassware. After each use, she was obliged to rinse with clean tap water and then wipe with a clean towel.
For sale of servings of ice cream were allowed to use a BU��Agnie shape and wooden spatula, which had to be destroyed after use. Factory prices for such paper molds was 50% to 90 cents per thousand. And over a hundred parchment molds took two and a half to four rubles.
Those who do not abide by the rules, were fined. Also the careless seller could prohibit trade or to arrest him for up to three months.
