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History Of Ice Cream
Most of the below following
information has been actually extracted for “The
History of Ice Cream”, written by the International
Association of Ice
Cream Manufacturers (IAICM) Washington DC, 1978.
Once upon a time, hundreds
of years ago, Charles I of England hosted a sumptuous state
banquet for many of his friends and family. The meal, consisting
of many delicacies of the day, had been simply superb but
the "coup de grace" was yet to come. After much
preparation, the King's French chef had concocted an apparently
new dish. It was cold and resembled fresh- fallen snow but
was much creamier and sweeter than any other after- dinner
dessert.
The guests were delighted,
as was Charles, who summoned the cook and asked him not to
divulge the ice
cream recipe for his frozen cream. The King wanted the
delicacy to be served only at the Royal table and offered
the cook 500 pounds a year to keep it that way. Sometime later,
however, poor Charles fell into disfavor with his people and
was beheaded in 1649. But by that time, the secret of the
frozen ice cream remained a secret no more. The
cook, named DeMirco, had not kept his promise
This is just one of many of
the fascinating tales which surround the evolution of our
country's most popular dessert, ice cream. It is likely that
ice
cream was not invented, but rather came
to be over years of similar efforts
It is likely that ice cream
was not invented, but rather it has come to be over years
of similar efforts. The Roman Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar
was said to have sent slaves to the mountains to bring snow
and ice to the cool and freeze the fruit drinks he was so
fond of. Centuries later, the Italian Marco Polo returned
from his famous journey to the Far East with a good recipe
for making water ices resembling modern day sherbets.
About 1926 the first commercially-successful
continuous this process freezer was perfected. The continuous
freezer, developed by Clarence Vogt, and later ones produced
by the other manufacturers, had allowed the ice
cream industry to become a mass producer of the
product.
The first Canadian had started
selling ice cream was Thomas Webb of Toronto,
a confectioner, in the year 1850. William Neilson was produced
his first commercial batch of ice
cream on Gladstone
Ave. in Toronto the year 1893, and his company produced ice
cream at that time location for close to 100 years.
Also see, 1975 Ice Cream
& 99 Flake
