{"id":3477,"date":"2026-02-11T05:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:01:28","slug":"going-out-for-ice-cream-in-regency-london-by-susan-karsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/going-out-for-ice-cream-in-regency-london-by-susan-karsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Going out for Ice Cream in Regency London ~ by Susan Karsten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gunter’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019ve done a fair amount of reading in the regency genre, you\u2019ll have come across a reference to Gunter\u2019s. I\u2019ve seen it mentioned as a place for a chaperoned daytime outing, and as a purveyor of catering for balls and banquets.<\/p>

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Studying up on the place, one learns it was founded way back in 1757 as “The Pot and Pineapple”. By the time the regency was in full swing, it was owned by James Gunter. The name was synonymous with the finest in treats., such as ice cream, sweets, and pastries.<\/p>\n

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So Pretty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being inventive with ice cream flavors tempted more customers. Some extraordinary flavors from those days were jasmine, elderflower, and parmesan, among others. Gunter’s establishment lived on into the twentieth century, but is no longer in existence.<\/p>\n

It touches me to know that today’s confectioners’ obsession with wild flavors is not unique to our lavish times. Researching some of our latest flavors in 2013 brought to my attention: ale & bacon, salted caramel, pear with blue cheese, lemon basil, and Marsala date flavors.<\/p>\n

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200 years from the heyday of the regency and we still crave our unusually-flavored ice cream.<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite flavor? Most unusual you’ve had?<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally posted 2013-10-10 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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If you\u2019ve done a fair amount of reading in the regency genre, you\u2019ll have come across a reference to Gunter\u2019s. I\u2019ve seen it mentioned as a place for a chaperoned daytime outing, and as a purveyor of catering for balls and banquets. Studying up on the place, one learns it was founded way back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101,131,13,1],"tags":[322,320,321,323],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-food","category-tea","category-tea-time","category-uncategorized","tag-gunters","tag-ice-cream","tag-ice-cream-flavors","tag-tea-shops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}