HISTORY OF ICE CREAM
Do you know that ice cream whose consumption increase quickly with the
coming of hot summer days is now 3.000 years old? Although it is thought that
Chinese were the first race who met ice cream, heroes of the story of the first
ice cream was Romans.
Roman emperor, Neron, is widely known with his bellicosity also his
gluttonous. While he was watching gladiator’s fights, he rewarded his chefs who
served delicious meals to emperor. One day, one of the chefs filled the snow
which he collected from a peak of mountain with compress in a container. He
served it to emperor by pour honey and small fruits on it. Neron liked very
much it which he had not tasted before. The other day he sent his soldiers to
collect snow. He made chefs prepare the first ice cream by pouring honey and
small fruits. These method which come
from Romans is still used by people who live in Anatolia, but they use it with
one difference, they try to gain unique taste with molasses not honey.
Homeland of the ice and cold beverages is always East countries. Those
who lived in Anatolia, Arabians and Iranians drank ice sugary waters which
called “şerbet” or drank ice fruit juices.
Western people, who met culture of the East, discovered flavors which
were unique in East. Ice cream descriptions, which Marka Polo brought from
China, gave a new sight to Italian chefs. They developed different ice creams
on their own. Chefs who were exiled to France palace by Catherine of Florentine
who was married to France king Henry II, taught to their France counterparts
how to make ice cream. Ice cream coming to Europe in the seventeen century was
famous in a short time.
It is known that there were almost 250 ice cream shops in Paris. At 1851
Jacob Fussel began to make ice cream and buy in U.S.A. In Italy there is a unique kind ice cream
which is prepared with different ingredients: Semi- freddo. This famous ice
cream is prepared by adding creamy biscuit before it is frozen. At old times
ice cream was made in containers which were covered by salt and ice. After
1900, with the advent of refrigerator ice cream spread to all over world. The cornet which gives a chick taste first
appeared in World Exhibition which held on Missouri Louis at 1904.
Ice cream in Turkey was prepared in special ice cream shops or by street
ice cream sellers in the past.
Hand-churned ice cream became famous with a name called “Maraş ice
cream”. Boiled milk intensified by adding salep is made cool by mixing.
Combination whose environment is covered with ice layer is made frozen by
beating. With this way ice cream become a dessert which stretch like gum and
does not melt easily.