The History of Ice Cream
April 27, 2022
It was said that around 2,500 years ago ice cream came about in Persia. Ice cream was based on sweetened water grounded up and decorated with fruit toppings. This treat gradually spread within Europe along with new recipes.
Italian noblewoman Catherine de’Medici traveled to France to marry the future king, Duke de Orleans, in 1533 and introduced ice cream. She wanted to produce and develop popular ice cream that was also available to everyone.
A few decades after you would start to see street vendors in North America selling ice cream. They would soon realize they ran across a huge problem, refrigeration. In 1926 refrigeration problems were solved with electrical freezers. The ice cream industry gained colossal enlargement, making numerous amounts of ice cream flavors with attainable prices.
Today, the United States is one of the largest consumers of ice cream collecting more than millions of dollars each year.
Fun Facts
12 pounds of milk only produce 1 gallon of ice cream
The United States is the second largest consumer of ice cream with New Zealand being the first