Ice cream is one of the most popular desserts in the world . Although many people enjoy this frozen desserts . Eating frozen sweets started about two thousand years ago. In ancient Italy, Persia and China, ice was mixed with fruits or fruit juice . In ancient Rome,the Emperor Nero had brought snow down from the mountains and mixed it with fruits.
Arabs were the first people to add milk to frozen desserts . Instead of fruit juice, they added sugar as a sweetener.Thay also added dried fruits and nuts. As early as 1,000 years agi ice cream could be found in Baghadad, Damascus and Cairo
Mush later,in the sixteenth century, the ruters of ancient India used horsemen to bring ice down from the mounrains and mixed it with fruits . Also during this time a famous Italian duchess, Catherine de Medici brought ice cream to France . A hundred years later, in the seventeenth century ice cream was found in England .
Ice cream and ice cream recipes began to be mentioned in books.One of the earliest ice cream recipes appeared in a cookery book published in 1718. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first mention of the phrase "ice cream" was in a magazine that was published in the year 1744.
About one hundred years later, in the 1870's, a German engineer invented something that later helped to make ice cream available worldwide . This invebtion was the freezer . This is when ice cream started to spread all over the world because it could ba more easily made and transported without getting melted.
These days there are many companies that sell ice cream and the number of different flavors available is well over 1,000...
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