The Story of How Ice Cream’s Existence

THE EVOLUTION OF ICE CREAM

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Well today, we are diving deeper in to the core history of ICE CREAM

Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may made from dairy milk or cream and it is flavoured with a sweetened, either sugar or an alternative, or any spice such as cocoa or vanilla. Colouring are usually added, in addition to stabilizers. 

Ice creams followed the rise of the modern human civilizations. It incredible appeal and high manufacturing price fueled the minds of countless investors, who trough certified of troubles finally enable the creation of the modern day icecream industry.

Let's find out more about ice cream history, time and popular types. 

We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was a fun of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman empire Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavoured with fruits and juices.

No specific person has been credited with inventing ice cream. The title of official ice cream inventor has never been awarded. 

Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century BC . Although no specific  date of origin or inventor had been undisputably credited with it discovery.

However, China is mostly credited because, they had started consuming an ice cream like food in 618-97AD. King Tang of Shang had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of a buffalo milk, flavour an Camphor. The kind of ice cream was invented in China about 200 BC, when a milk and rice mixture was frozen by packing it into snow. First Ice cream appeared in Ancient Persia, some 2500 years ago and in those earlier time, they were all based on sweetened water that was iced ,grinded into little pieces and then decorated with various tasting toppings and fruits. 

This tradition of ice cream production slowly reached Greek and Roman Empires where ice creams were used liberally by Roman Nobility and Royalty who had necessary money to fund very expensive process of production. Sadly, after the fall of the Roman Empire, organized ice transport from the mountains to the cities below stopped and ice cream continued to be even more expensive product.

Little change in the 1000 years following the fall of Roman, and after Europe started existing. Dark ages did ice cream managed to resurface in Renaissance Italy.

Over 1000 years later Marco Polo returned to Italy from the far East with a recipe that closely reassembled what is now called Sherbet*. Historians estimate that this recipe evolved into ice cream sometimes in the *16th Century. England seems to have discovered ice cream at the same period or perhaps even earlier than the Italians." Cream Ice" as it was called appeared regularly at the table of Charles I during the 17th France was introduced to similar frozen dessert in 1553 by Catherine de Medici when she became the wife of Henry II of France.

It was until 1660 that Ice cream was made available for the general public. The m Sicilian Procopio introduced a recipe by blending Milk, cream, butter and eggs at Cafe Procope. 

Ice cream officially made it way to America in 1744 when the Scottish colonist visited the governor of MeryLand and wrote about the "delicious strawberry Icecream" he had eaten there. From there ice cream invaded the white house with presidents George Washington  and Thomas Jefferson, loving the Treat on hot summer days. Yet ice cream remain a dessert for the upper class. Ice cream was widely made available in the 19th Century which led to new creation and therefore became an edible morale symbol during World War II.

In 1851 ice cream entered mass production. Jacob Fussell, a Pennsylvanian milk dealer decided to demand for his products was unstable so he opened an ice cream factory to make use of his unsold milk.Factory was an instant success. The mass production of ice cream suddenly made the treat more accessible to the lower classes. 

Then in 1800, industrial revolution hit. Advances in refrigeration, steam power and automobile  finally made it possible for ice cream to bed transported to and stored by the masses. It received a further boost when in the 1870's Carl Von linde of Germany invented industrial refrigerator.

In the 1930's, ice cream hit grocery store shelves and became a staple in American freezers. Ice cream is no longer a treat for the elite. Today ice cream is found in any restaurant or corner stores and it is recognize globally as a perfect treat for any time and occasion and event.