History of Ice cream - History does seem to support the fact that the Chinese, during the T'ang Dynasty, made desserts of snow or crushed ice with milk and rice added. It was said to be a favorite of the emperor who employed no less than 94 men to continually find snow or make crushed ice so he could have his dessert whenever he wished.
However, slushy-type desserts are fairly common to the histories of many cultures in the world, especially those of colder climes. Eskimos (or Esquimaux, if you want to get picky) in Alaska and Inuit Indians in Northern Canada routinely added whale grease and blueberries to make a type of snow slushy. According to an article in the Toronto Times (Canada) the first real ice cream was actually invented by a Spanish doctor who used a bowl within a bowl, one which was filled with the cream mixture and placed in a larger bowl containing ice and Salt Petre. I am not sure where they got that as I haven't come across it in my research, but I will take their word for it. With a grain of rock salt, that is. But then they also claim that the Arabic word "sharab" is believed to be the root word of "Sorbetto" in Italian and Sorbet in English. True enough, the Arabs invaded Sicily where Mt. Etna provided a little ice and the sorbetto was quite popular. (See our article Sicilian food and cooking.)
With some foods there are definite records and dates available, but ice cream seems to be the logical step from flavored snow or ices so that today we have creamy concoctions of all flavors. Unfortunately, many commercial concoctions that call themselves ice cream are not really ice cream at all. First, let's get it straight about the name. It was originally called "Iced Cream" because that's exactly what it was. Flavored cream was chilled to heavy viscosity by agitation in a bed of salted ice. Over the years, the "d" was dropped from "iced" and it became ice cream.
From my research, it seems that the two cultures who did the most to develop the creamy concoction so many of us love today were the Italian and the French. While there are records of the Chinese (they who develop everything) having flavored ice and snow, there are no early records of them having ice cream as we know it. Considering the absence of dairy products in Chinese cuisine, and the fact that many Chinese are lactose-intolerant, it is doubtful that they went beyond snow.
However, in the 1700s the French hit upon the idea of freezing custards and recipes for ice cream began to appear in French cookbooks. Somewhere around this same time, the Italians were making ice cream in pretty much the same way we make it today.(inmamaskitchen)
See also :
Sour Sally
Burger King
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