Amishi: Can we please go to have some Ice cream?
Father: Yes, sure but do you know the history behind ice cream?
Amishi: No… but I would surely like to know the history behind ice cream. It sounds really interesting …..
Well, this is a true conversation between me and my Dad. I thought, why not share it with you all !!So, be comfortable in your back seats and enjoy!! If I ask you the meaning of a ice cream, what will be your answer? Comment and tell me.
What Google tells:
Ice cream (derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It is usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors.
If someone asks me, I will tell that:
Ice cream is a yummy dessert which has cream on the top.
Father: Good question! No one knows. The title of official ice cream inventor has never been awarded. What I know is, as far back as 200 B.C., people have enjoyed variations of frozen treats. Alexander the Great loved snow flavored with honey and nectar, biblical references have been made to King Solomon’s desire of iced drinks, and Nero Claudius Caesar was known to send servants to the mountains for snow to then be flavored with fruits and juices. However, it is the Chinese who are most often credited with the invention of today’s ice cream. They figured out that packing snow into a bowl of rice and milk made a tasty treat.
Amishi: Oh! I see…
Father: Then a thousand years later, Marco Polo returned home from a trip to the Far East with a recipe similar to modern day sherbet. The craze quickly spread throughout Europe’s upper class and royalty during the 1500s. But that ice cream just kept on melting. So, there was no way for lower classes to keep their ice cream cold.
Ice Cream Today
Ice cream is no longer, just a treat for the elite. Today ice cream is found in almost any restaurant, or corner store, and is recognized globally as the perfect summer treat. In the United States alone 1.6 billion gallons of ice cream and frozen treats are produced annually, with the average American eating four gallons of ice cream each year. That’s a lot of ice cream! Ice cream is still evolving and changing each year, with new flavors being introduced and tasty recipes being developed.
Amishi: Wow…that was really interesting.Thanks, Dad!!
Where will ice cream be in the next 20 years? Tell me, what you think in the comments. That’s all for this week, wait for my next blog!
Thanks a ton!!!