Recipes. History of the ice-cream

Ice was used by the ancient civilizations. They used it to preserve food, cool food, in recipes and deserts...

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 Ice was used by the ancient civilizations. They used it to preserve food, cool food, in recipes and deserts. It is worth to mention that first “ice stores” were situated in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago. It is well known that ice was used in various deserts. Old books mention that pharaohs used their slaves for bringing them ice and snow from mountains. In Greece this idea was developed further. In their markets they had been selling cones of ice with honey and fruits in them. Other sources tell that the idea and recipes for using ice for making deserts came from China long before that.

 

 Best in processing and storing ice were Persians. They even created “refrigerators”, in which ice was stored. They could store ice in them even in the hottest days of summer. The “refrigerator” itself was a hole on the ground with special ventilation, which provided the appropriate temperature.

 

 We should mention that west Europe learned for the ice cream much later (13th century). The man who introduced Europe with this desert was called Marc O’Polo. During one of his travels he met a Mongolian khan who gave him a recipe for making fruit ice cream. Of course, unknown until that period, this pleasure became very popular and also became a part of the meal of the European men (in the beginning only wealthy people and aristocrats could afford it). For around 100 years this desert gained so much popularity that it was written in books with recipes. Companies which produced ice cream were made. There were even gourmet recipes which were kept as state secrets.

 

Ice cream recipe

 

Ice-cream with raisins and rum

 

3/4 cup of raisins, 1/2 cup of rum, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups of cream

 

Pour the rum upon the raisins and leave them for one night. Warm the milk up in a small utensil. Beat the eggs with sugar in separate bowl. Slowly add the warm milk to them(do not stop stirring). Leave aside to cool down at room temperature. Add cream and freeze. Put soaked in rum raisins before freezing.

 

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