The Invention of Ice-creamThe ancient Romans flavored ice cream with fruit and honey, and Marco Polo (1254-1324) brought several recipes for flavored ice cream from the Far East to Italy, where it caught on in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Water ice and sherbet shops sprang up in France in the 17th century. In the late 18th century, cream was added to water ices at shops in Paris.
Ice cream was popular in the America colonies and the early republic.
The hand cranked ice cream maker was invented in 1846 by Nancy Johnson in New Jersey and the first known commercial ice cream factory was established in Baltimore in 1851.
With the advent of refrigerator it became possible to manufacture, store and ship ice cream in larger amounts.
The ice cream soda was invented by Robert Green in 1874 at a celebration at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
The sundae as apparently invented in Wisconsin in the 1890s, as a means of getting around laws that prohibited the sale of ice cream sodas on Sundays.The soda fountain operators served the ice cream with the flavored syrup but no soda and called the resultant dish a sundae to avoid any religious backlash from the improper use to the word Sunday.
The ice cream cone was invented twice – once by an Italian immigrant to the United States, Italo Machiony, who patent a conemaking machine in 1903, and the second time with an impromptu use of a Syrian waffle known as a ‘zalabia’ to contain ice cream at the Louisiana Purchase exposition in St. Louis in 1904.
The Invention of Ice-cream
