AGNES B MARSHALL

Jaynes’ Great Grandmother Mabel Plascott (1899 - 1958) was trained in Mrs A.B. Marshalls High class cookery School in London ,1914.

Mrs Marshall was The English Culinary entrepreneur and dubbed the ‘Queen of Ices’. Her school was a prestigious establishment, that catering to wealthy clients.

Agnes was born in Walthamstowe, London, August, 1855, she was passionate about cooking and learnt as much as possible where and whenever she could, including studying in Paris and Vienna.

In 1883, Mrs. Marshall opened the “Marshalls School of Cookery” in Mortimer Street London. Unusual at the time Agnes, owned and was the primary driving force of the establishment. The school had a shop and a warehouse that sold all the kitchen equipment including her unique ice cream machine and early freezers, refrigerators, ice cream and jelly moulds.

In 1886 Agnes started her weekly paper called ‘The Table’, a paper of cookery, gastronomy and food excellence.

Agnes targeted the middle-rich and upper-class ladies who wanted their cooks or housekeepers to produce top quality dishes for their dinner parties.

All of her books have a section of adverts of her own brand food and equipment that could be purchased directly.

She is credited with creating the first freezer, she wrote two of the most important books on ices, which popularized them among Britain’s upper class in the late 19th century.

She patented the first ice cream making machine.

She is credited as being the first person to put ice cream or sorbet in an edible cone or cornet, around 1888.

Agnes was the first to suggest using liquified gas to create ice cream in 1901, this is know to have inspired modern professionals like Heston Blumenthal. And at Yarty we are honoured to supply Heston with our contemporary syrups… made the same way that Mabel was taught by Agnes.

In 1904 she passed away following a riding accident, in the 1920’s her recipes were sold to publishers Ward Lock, who incorporated them in Mrs Beeton’s books.

Agnes’s books remained out of print for nearly 90 years.

Hopefully here at Yarty we can carry on a small bit of the inspiration, that my Grandmother Mabel, learnt at A.B.Marshall’s, to honour their, history and adventurist nature.

And this is why our first van is called Agnes!