The development of ice cream

Ice cream is a very attractive and delicious frozen dairy product. Do you want to know how ice cream developed? If you are interested in this knowledge, just read it with me!

Nearly 800 years ago, ice cream originated in China. During the Yuan Dynasty, a savvy food store businessman had a whim. He tried to add some honey, milk and pearl powder to the ice. As a result, he made the earliest ice cream in the world. In the 13th century, the world-famous Italian explorer Marco Polo returned to Italy and brought back the Chinese method of making ice cream.

In 1500, when a French king married a member of the Italian royal family, ice cream was passed down from Italy to France. On the basis of the original practice, the French added many new ingredients. In 1625, the newly succeeding King Charles I of England hired a chef to make ice cream in order to be able to eat this kind of food to cool off the heat, and asked the chef to keep the ice cream recipe strictly confidential.

Around 1700, ice cream spread to the American continent. The first president of the United States, George Washington, has an extraordinary fascination with this new craft. At that time, it was not easy to make ice cream. People want to eat this kind of food in summer and have to take ice cubes from the river in winter and store them in sawdust. Ice cream is still the food of wealthy people. In 1846, a lady named Nancy Johnson in the United States improved the complex process and created a manual crank freezer to make the ice cream production process simpler and easier. In 1851, American Zakab Fissell opened an American ice cream factory in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1900, due to the widespread application of electricity and refrigeration, the production process of ice cream was speeded up and the cost was reduced, which greatly reduced the price. Since then, ice cream has become a popular food for reducing heat.