Supports a qualified timing claim and distinguishes recipe reconstruction from later assumptions about constant historical ice service.
A historical synthesis with uneven surviving print evidence; it does not exclude earlier isolated iced cocktails or define one national transition date.
Wondrich argues from period recipes, advertisements, illustrations, commercial-ice expansion, and Gold Rush context that systematic use of ice in cocktails became established mainly in the 1850s rather than being standard in the 1830s and 1840s.
Chapter 7, “Cocktails and Crustas,” subsection “The Cocktail Grows Up” — ice and mixing practice
Chapter 7, “Cocktails and Crustas,” subsection “The Cocktail Grows Up” — ice and mixing practice
Fresh audit 2026-10-01: PDF 233–244 checked within complete 419-page body and individual visual reading. Periodization is the author's synthesis, not a universal adoption date; earlier isolated ice use is not excluded. Earlier audit statements are superseded by this bounded source check.
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