Ice cream arrived in England from France. It also meant chefs could save money by using less relatively expensive cream. Not only would it have made ice cream thicker, smoother and richer. The addition of egg yolk to ice cream is important. In France, the new dish was called ‘fromage glacés’, iced or candied cheese. Presumably this method had been in used previously, and was widely known at least in Italy, but it had not been published until then.
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In 1742 the French master chef published a recipe for ice cream that involved both egg yolks and stirring, so the full details of something like our modern ice cream had arrived in print at last. In fact, chemist, Nicholas Lemery wrote the first, individual sorbet recipe in 1674, beating Antonio Latini by 20 years!Īnd Nicolas Audiger a Frenchman (admittedly trained in Italy), improved on Latinis methods by insisting his cooks stirred their mixtures as they froze to give the final water ice a lighter, texture. The first mention of this is in the Indian collection of folk tales called the Panchatantra from the fourth-century, which tells us that “Water only becomes really cool when it contains salt”. It may sound weird, but just adding salt to ice makes the ice colder!Īnd this means that anything (for example cream!) packed around a vessel of salty ice also gets colder. Put simply the endothermic process is a type of chemical reaction that produces cooling. Ice cream lover Thomas Jefferson had an ice house built at both the White House and his mansion Monticello, which he filled with ice from the Rivanna River each winter.Īnd the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have enjoyed the worlds first sorbet, made with ice brought down from the Apennine Mountains and flavored with honey and wine.īut while harvesting ice worked well for cooling drinks or creating primitive sorbets, to be able to freeze something else (for example cream!), our ancestors would need to come up with something else. It's thought that the first ice house was built in 1780 BC by King Zimri-Lim of Mari in what was then Mesopotamia (and is now Syria). If you remember the ice harvest in Disney’s Frozen, well this actually happened! Ice would be collected in winter and stored in specially made ice houses. Well, prior to modern fridges, our ancestors used a couple of innovative methods to cool food. How can ice cream have much of a history if the first electrical refrigerator for home use was only invented in 1913? But, before we start, we need to make a small detour into science, specifically, into refrigeration and cooling. The good news is that the history of ice cream is still an incredible tale. So, perhaps it’s no surprise that legend says ice cream was brought to Europe by Marco Polo, who had tasted it in the court of the Chinese emperor, Kublai Khan.Ī magical food needs a mythical origin, after all!īut sadly, historians now think that there is little truth in the Marco Polo ice cream origins story. It combines dairy and sugar in a ratio as close to mother’s milk as any food ice cream is buried deep in our unconscious. Since it melts at room temperature, its existence is fleeting once it’s out of the fridge here is the transient beauty of life in a cone. There is something miraculous about ice cream.
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