Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — ICE AS A SWEETMEAT. [ARTICLE]

ICE AS A SWEETMEAT.

We Americans eat more Jce cream and similar frozen desserts than the people of any other nation, but the Japanese hqye us heaten as eaters — .of ice. According to me Tokyo Advertiser, one of their favorite dishes is .small cakes of ice broken into tiny pebbly pieces and eaten with sugar and lemon, or any other mixture that they may fancy. The commonest way of eating Ice in Japan, however, is to shave it into snowy flakes and to swallow it with sweetened water into which various appetizers, such as fruit jufce or -- sweetmeats, have been thrown. Ice creaih, milk and eggs shaken with ice and other kinds of . cooling beverages are sold tn an ever-increasing quantity, but the old style of eating ‘‘raw” ice, in what the Japanese call the korimlzu fashion, is still in. the greatest vogue*— Youtli’s Companion.