In the centre, soup was seen
Smoking, from a vase of snow.
That learned philosopher and prince of culinary perfection, Count
Rumford, has taught the world the mode of preparing ice-cream in a hot
oven, and of sending it freezing to table in a light crust of smoking
pastry. The epicurean reader will be much disappointed if he expects to
find that the above lines allude to some recent improvement in the
science of chemistry, establishing the converse of this discovery; and
that the soup at Dunse was actually served steaming to the company in an
excavated snow-ball. It is hoped, that “a vase of snow” will be allowed
as an appropriate figure for a clean white crockery tureen.