Such a delicious ice cream beckoning with its coolness ... It is probably very difficult to find a person who is indifferent to this delicacy. Do many people know the history of ice cream? You will recognize her now.
The first appearance of ice cream in the world
The history of the appearance of ice cream in the world is very interesting. Imagine: in order to enjoy a cold refreshing dessert many centuries ago, you had to have the status of a royal person. The ice cream recipe of that time was kept in strict confidence by the court chefs, and ice and snow were mined by the fastest and hardiest slaves in the nearby mountains to cool the dishes.
China is considered the first country to create a cold dessert about 5 thousand years ago. The imperial delicacy consisted of pieces of pure ice, fruit and snow. Subsequently, the emperor improved the recipe by adding milk to it. But cooking has remained a secret.
Other peoples also had a method of preparing a mixture that vaguely resembled a familiar dessert. One thing was unchanged - frozen fruits, ice cubes, chilled drinks.
Marco Polo was exactly the man who brought to Europe a wonderful treat, which later became so popular in the diet of aristocrats.
The composition and properties of the dessert markedly differed from the product known today, but the combination of frozen fruits with syrups, honey, milk and pistachios formed the basis of the favorite treats in its modern design.
The history of the appearance of ice cream in Russia
A distant history keeps its ice cream options in Russia. In ancient Russia, it all started with a simple treat - frozen milk or cream. Initially, the dessert was served, planed in thin slices, laid out on a small slide in small saucers. Later they came up with these slices to beat into a homogeneous lush mass, add different ingredients.
For great festivities and holidays, they carefully prepared a delicious dessert of cottage cheese, cream or sour cream, eggs, sugar. Heavily chilled, whipped to the air the delicacy was poured with honey, raisins and nuts were added. And they also made various figures out of this mass, put them in the cold, traded them like hot cakes at fairs.
Here is such an interesting history of ice cream in Russia. A photo of this delicious treat pleases your eyes and stimulates your appetite. I just want to go to the store and buy myself several servings at once.
Expensive pleasure
The history of ice cream tells us that in the late 18th - early 19th centuries in Russia, it acquired the status of a popular, fabulous and incredibly expensive dessert among the nobility. A new-fashioned cold treat was present at every social event, ball, and a magnificent feast.
The court chefs masterfully coped with the capricious melting product, because the manufacturing technology was so far from perfect. Nevertheless, the recipes were very impressive and were included in the list of cookbooks. One of the recognized masterpieces of that time was “Vesuvius on Mont Blanc” - ice cream, sprinkled with rum, cognac and set ablaze on a platter. They also surprised secular society by serving a colorful dessert.
Mention of your favorite cold delicacy is not only in the memoirs of the royal court. In the works of great poets and writers this dessert is also found. M. Yu. Lermontov obliged the home cook to serve ice cream to the table daily.
Ice cream production process in Russia and the USSR
Manual ice cream production is a laborious and low-volume business. The amount of product directly depended on the presence of frost and ice. The device for the production of frozen mixes appeared in the 19th century and was even patented in 1842 by the merchant Ivan Izler, but never received much recognition.
With the invention of refrigeration equipment, the process of creating and preserving goodies has acquired a new meaning.
Full-fledged and well-established dessert production in Russia began in the 1930s, when a workshop equipped with the necessary equipment was officially opened at the Moscow Dairy Plant. Creamy ice cream and ice cream were made in its walls.
Nevertheless, production volumes were not enough, the equipment was the most primitive.
The history of ice cream in the USSR tells that the real start in the development of a favorite product was the opening of a factory in 1937 under the leadership of People's Commissar A. Mikoyan. Technologies and equipment were borrowed from American specialists, which made it possible to raise the volume of manufactured products to 25 tons per day.
Thanks to the efforts of the People’s Commissar of Food, ice cream production in the USSR became an important stage in the development of the food industry, partnerships with foreign countries.
The peak of the popularity of Soviet ice cream
Everyone loved ice cream in the USSR. Soviet ice cream - an unforgettable taste of childhood, joy and carelessness. What is the story of the appearance of ice cream sundae?
Only in the USSR, the delicacy was made from natural whole milk and was an environmentally friendly product. Foreign tourists set as their goal to stay in the country a visit to the Soviet circus, ballet and constant refreshment of ice cream.
And although ice cream was sold in many city stalls, outlets and cafes, a long line lined up for it. It was sold by weight, and disassembled in a matter of hours by local and visiting residents. Unfortunately, rural and rural children, and adults, ice cream rarely appeared in the outback. Therefore, a trip to the city was always accompanied by the purchase of a large amount of treasured goodies.
Types of ice cream in the USSR
There were not so many types of Soviet ice cream, and the prices, respectively, were different. From 9 cents for fruit in a paper cup and up to 30 cents for chocolate with nuts. Separately, it was possible to choose a filler - grated chocolate, fruit syrup.
In cafes and restaurants, cold dessert was served in wide glass vases, with the addition of liquors and champagne. Multi-colored creamy balls of ice cream enthralled everyone without exception.
Wall calendars, city posters with symbols of the Soviet cold goodies - with penguins, with a slogan and enticing colorful pattern were fashionable.
The history of ice cream tells that the era of this delicacy in the USSR ended with the beginning of perestroika, when a 100-point assessment of the quality of the product was excluded from the technological instructions. The most delicious and harmless domestic delicacy, albeit in plain packaging, was replaced by an imported one. At the same time, natural ingredients were replaced with stabilizers, palm oil, emulsifiers and dyes.
Today, ice cream production in Russia is aimed at returning to standards according to GOST. Many types of ice cream, popsicle, creamy in a crispy horn are very reminiscent of the taste of the Soviet dessert.
Ice lolly
The most popular of all the variety of types and varieties of ice cream is popsicle.
The popularity of cold dessert in many parts of the world and the gradual improvement of its cooking methods have led to controversy. To this day, both the French and Americans are offering their versions of creating the first popsicle.
So what is the story of popsicle ice cream? One way or another, but it is the American Christian (Christian) Kent Nelson who is the official author of the dessert, patented in 1922, in the form of a briquette coated with chocolate glaze. Three years earlier, Nelson set up a culinary experiment, combining chocolate with a chilled dessert. This idea was suggested to him by the confusion of an ordinary boy buyer, who could not choose between two sweets.
The result of the experiment exceeded all expectations. A new type of ice cream, popsicle (in the original Eskimo pie - "Eskimo pie"), quickly became a favorite treat for children and adults. The production of dessert of this kind has increased incredibly.
It should be noted that the stick, as a well-known attribute of popsicle ice cream, did not appear immediately, but only after a few years.
In Soviet times, it was produced in the form of a briquette, and the wand was packed inside a shiny wrapper.
Eskimo even won a personal holiday - his birthday. The date came on January 24th, the day Kent Nelson patented his delicious invention.
Creamy pleasure
But the most tender and delicious of all varieties of goodies - ice cream. Once upon a time, French culinary masters created it from a simple creamy ice cream and gave the name in honor of the city of Plombières-les-Bains.
This variety contains a large amount of cream, sugar and eggs, being a very high-calorie, but incredibly delicious dessert. Also, natural flavorings are added to it - vanilla, chocolate. Ice cream served with nuts, fruits, melted chocolate, syrup.
Worldwide, it is considered the highest classic ice cream. The method of its preparation and the composition of the ingredients remain the same, preserving tradition and a mild taste. Many other desserts are created in combination with ice cream, tender biscuit cakes with layers of creamy frozen goodies are very popular.
Taste of childhood. The story of the appearance of ice cream
Children have always enjoyed ice cream. This is probably why many adults associate this taste with the child’s careless happiness.
In Soviet times, when ice cream contained exclusively environmentally friendly products, treating children was a daily cherished dream.
Across the country, cafes attracted with their windows with vases painted on them with cold balls of ice cream. Each trip to the cinema with children ended in one of these cafes, where the kids received a generous portion of cream ice cream.
Who in childhood did not dream that when he became an adult, he would spend all his earned money on popsicle? Kids always wanted cold treats. The history of ice cream for children is perhaps the most interesting and exciting. We can safely say that this is the most favorite delicacy of many kids.
Now the choice is just as great, but not so safe. The dyes contained in the treat can cause allergies and diathesis in the child, and long-stored briquettes with vegetable fats and synthetic dyes can sometimes even cause serious poisoning.
When choosing ice cream for a child, it is better to give preference to creamy varieties based on animal fats, without preservatives and having a not too bright color - it is quite possible that this is not a natural fruit dye. Many manufacturers create special children's varieties of the same name containing useful trace elements.
Types and varieties of ice cream
Today, there are many types of ice cream, differing in composition, preparation technology and taste. But the classification of this cold dessert is based on traditional norms.
- Sundae is a mass based on animal fats.
- Creamy - ice cream based on natural cream.
- Dairy - the composition assumes the presence of whole or powdered milk. Low calorie product.
- Sorbet - chilled mass based on natural juices, fruit purees. Perhaps with the addition of alcohol.
- Fruit ice is an ordinary frozen icicle made from juice, yogurt, fruit tea.
In addition to hardened varieties of ice cream, which are made in production, soft is very popular, which implements a special machine directly in cafes and catering establishments.
And then the variety of taste shades depends on the imagination of the developers, culinary experts and personal addiction of each.
The amazing world of ice cream
There is nothing better than a creamy ice cream in a waffle cup. However, in many countries they think very differently.
In the Guinness Book of Records, there is one unsightly store in Venezuela. Its owner, Manuel Oliveiro, offers customers about 800 types of ice cream. Despite the fact that the delicacy here has natural fillers of a non-dessert trend, the cafe is flourishing.
At your choice, customers are offered ice cream with the taste of squid, pumpkin, cheese, avocado and more. The "Star" cafe - a metallic tint dessert - contains honey, bee pollen and ... Viagra.
Fried ice cream is Mexican's favorite dessert. Prepares like a regular cutlet. Well-frozen balls are rolled in breading and fried in oil. However, this is a harmless and quite edible dish.
It turns out that love for ice cream is manifested throughout the world in the form of taste experiments. There are types of cold treats, which include garlic or pepper, potato horn with sausage and peas, eel and octopus, porcini mushrooms and wasabi.
So tomato ice cream, once produced in the USSR, was not the worst taste solution for a cold dessert.
Now you know the story of ice cream. Interesting, right? You can go to the store! Enjoy your meal!