The origin of ice cream

As early as the ancient Roman Empire, an emperor was suffering from the heat, so he asked his servants to run around in search of ice and snow to relieve the heat. A clever cook retrieved unmelted ice and snow from the mountain, stirred it with honey and fruit, and quenched the emperor’s thirst. This is probably the earliest ice cream in the world. In the 13th century, Marco Polo brought back to Italy from China the method of turning milk into ice, so there was a breakthrough in European summer cold drinks.

The actual use of cream to make ice cream began in the 15th century, less than 500 years ago. Ice cream is called "milk flower" in Italy and "frozen cream" in Britain. This shows that the main ingredients of ice cream cannot be separated from milk. However, the methods of making ice cream vary greatly, and the quality of ice cream produced by different manufacturers is also very different. The most famous countries in the world for making ice cream are Italy and the United States. It is said that the two presidents of Washington and Jefferson loved ice cream, so the ice cream manufacturing industry in the United States quickly developed.

Ice cream is an exotic food. English ice cream, translated into Chinese is ice cream, but it is customary to translate it as ice cream. This name is very clever. It has similar transliteration and is elegant in form and meaning, so it is still in use today. Of course, there are also writers who write ice rims and ice unicorns, but they are not as widespread and long-lived as ice cream.

Because ice cream is a modern food, most old-school people don't pay much attention to it at first. They would rather drink sour plum soup than ice cream. Two triangles of money and a cup of ice cream was regarded by most people as a luxury food to spend the summer.

The original method of making ice cream was to use a large wooden bucket with ice and salt in the bucket, and a tinplate bucket in the middle of the ice, containing starch slurry (lotus root powder), eggs, milk, sugar, spices or juice. The iron bucket has a lid, a hole in the lid, and a shaft tooth drives the surrounding blades. It rotates by hand and beats everything. It will freeze into ice cream in about half an hour. Shanghai used to sell 3 copper yuan a cup of ice cream on the road, which was made here. Although the price is not expensive, it does harm to hygiene. Later, the hand crank was changed to machine production, the equipment and sanitary conditions were greatly improved, and the ice cream business in Shanghai was getting better. There is a kind of ice cream that is cleverly done. A small scarlet cherry and a few sour pineapples are tempting. The name is also very fragrant. It is called "Citi Big Sister". No wonder business will be good.