FAMOUS CREATION OF THE DAY THE ICE CREAM

How refreshing is a cone

of ice cream on a hot,

summery day;

the rich, creamy, cold treat just seems to melt in the mouth , leaving behind a delightful sensation. It might seem like an indulgent creation but it is one that will continue to be enjoyed for countless more years to come.

DESCRIPTION: Ice

creams are frozen desserts usually made from dairy

products like milk and flavours. an ice cream; 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Milk Sugar Vanilla Extract Salt Ice Cubes Butter Flavoured Syrup

and cream and often combined with fruits

HOW IT IS PREPARED: The following basic ingredients are needed to make

5 tablespoons of coarse salt

are mixed with 2 quarts of crushed ice

and placed in metal tub; the salt lowers the temperature of the ice from 0 C to -180C which is the temperature needed to freeze the ice-cream mix. The following ingredients are then mixed separately in a smaller metallic bowl; a cup of
0

milk

, a tablespoon of sugar

, half teaspoon of vanilla extract, a

dollop of butter and 5 teaspoons of flavoured syrup . The small metallic bowl is placed in the tub containing the crushed ice/salt mix and stirred vigorously

with a hand-held mixer to ensure even freezing. After about 15 minutes of continuous mixing, the ingredients solidify to give a creamy, fluffy consistency. And that is the basic way to make ice cream.

INVENTOR(S) OF THE ICE CREAM: There is no accurate account of who

made the first ice cream but history shows that the process of creating frozen

desserts originated from China . By 400 B.C, wealthy Persians (modernday Iran) had concocted a mixture of rose water, vermicelli, saffron, fruits and other variety of flavours which they regularly served up at events. Before long, this well-kept secret treat was being passed from country to country; its even said that

the famous traveller, Marco Polo , brought back the recipe to his home town of Venice after a lengthy stay in China. Sometime in the 1700s, ice cream was introduced in America and it became a staple dessert for a few prominent figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In 1774, a confectioner by

the name of Phillip Lenzi, advertised in a New York newspaper that he would be selling ice cream in his store. Due to high demand, the first ice cream parlour was opened in 1776. In 1832, Augustus Jackson , an African

American working as a chef in the White House quit his day job to open his own confectionary service. He created several ice cream recipes and sold them in tin cans to ice-cream parlours in Philadelphia. In the space of a few years, he had

invented a well defined technique for manufacturing ice-cream and was the most successful ice-cream manufacturer in his day. In 1846, Nancy Johnson invented a hand cranked freezer and the fundamental principle of the device is still used

today; a can containing milk , sugar and flavouring is lowered into a larger can containing ice and salt. A crank fitted with a rotating paddle is then lowered into the smaller can to churn the ingredients. The simple equipment simplified the rather laborious way of making ice cream and made the delightful dessert even more accessible. She sold the device patent for $200 to William Young who considerately named it Johnson Patent Ice-cream Freezer.

EVOLUTION OF ICE CREAM MANUFACTURE: In 1851, an American

milk dealer by the name of James Fussell began making ice cream with the excess cream he had and very soon, the demand was more than he could produce. He then built giant replicas of the Johnson Patent Ice-cream Freezer and opened up his own ice-cream manufacturing industry, becoming the first person ever to do

so. Agnes B. Marshall dubbed the Queen of Ices was an English culinary expert of great proportions; her ingenuity in perfecting her creations led her to invent an ice-cream freezer in the late 1880s that could freeze a pint of ice-cream in five minutes. She designed the freezer with a broad and shallow physical structure and this allowed the ice-cream mix to be evenly chilled. In 1897, Alfred

L. Cralle, an African American working as a porter in a drug store noted that ice cream often stuck to the serving spoons thus making them difficult to dish out; he then set about constructing a tool which could efficiently scoop up ice cream and dish them in a presentable way. It was called the Ice-Cream Mold and Disher and it operated by means of a lever inserted in the middle of a spoon which pushed out the scooped ice-cream; the device proved extremely popular and

its still been used today. In 1926, Clarence Vogt designed and constructed the first continuous process freezer, shortening the time for ice-cream production even further.

WEIRDEST ICE-CREAM FLAVOURS:

1) Haggis ice-cream

2) Octopus

ice-cream

3) Horsemeat

ice-cream

4) Bacon

ice-cream

5) Smoked salmon

ice-cream

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ONLINE SOURCES
1) WikiHow : 5 ways to make ice-cream 2) EHow: About early ice-cream machines 3) Wikipedia: History of the ice-cream