subject: History Of Ice Cream [print this page] For humans the first and foremost thing to live is food. No one can live without the food. In ancient time people ate food just for the requirement but as time pass away the need of food comes together with the taste of food. Just to fulfill the taste requirements many experiments has been taken place. One of the best inventions from experiment is Ice cream.
In the invention of ice cream Arabs play an important role cream since they began using sugar and syrup instead of honey. In the 10th century B.C., sweet ice cream flavored with fruits and nuts could be purchased in all the major cites of Arab. As the time spend Arabs also began adding milk to the ice-cream, making it more similar to the type of diary based ice-cream that is most well-known today.
Ice cream knocks the door of public or market in the 18th century when cream, milk and egg yolks began to be mixed with ices. Ice cream then traveled to the USA through colonists, and it began to be sold by confectioners in cities. The first ice cream Parlor in America opened up in 1776 in New York.
The story behind the invention of cream cone is also very interesting. After ice cream getting popular a person named Italo Marchiony used to sell ice cream on Wall Street from his cart but the problem is that, he used to sell ice cream in glass and people were broke it. After discover that many customers were breaking his serving glasses which cost him money. To drop his overhead costs, he invented edible waffle cups with sloping sides and a flat bottom. Hence, the ice cream cone started coming into being. He patented this idea in 1903.
In ancient time there was a problem for ice maker and that is how we can put ice cream for long time. But after invention of refrigerator problem gets solved. Ice cream gets more popular when the continuous process freezer was indented in 1926. This resulted in an explosion of parlors and stores selling ice cream all over the world and allowed for mass production.
