Negative Space: refrigerators
- Four New Ices and an Ice Cream Cookery
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Philadelphia Ice Cream, Walnut Nougat, Lemon Cream Sherbet, and Cranberry Ice. Four more new no-churn ice creams and desserts for Summer 2025. And, a book collecting all my favorite no-churn ice creams if you’re interested!
- 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 Reprinted: 1928 Frigidaire
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If you’d like to have a printed copy of the 1928 Frigidaire Recipes, here’s how you can get one. Also, a lot of new recipes tried.
- 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!
- Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1947 Cold Cookery
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The 1947 Norge Cold Cookery and Recipe Digest reflects not just increased access to electricity but also the end of a second world war.
- 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
- Electric Refrigerator Menus and Recipes (ebook)
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General Electric’s 1927 dessert book for home refrigerators, 1929 fifth printing. (Miss Alice Bradley)
- Frigidaire Recipes (paperback)
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A slightly larger reprint of the 1928 Frigidaire Recipes cookbook and refrigerator manual. This is a wonderful resource for recipes from the twenties and for elegant recipes in general. (Miss Verna L. Miller)
- 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.”
