Ice cream is a sweet and delicious treat that kids and adults alike love. It becomes very popular in hot weather. Today there is a wide variety of ice cream varieties. The history of this cold delicacy began in ancient China, about 5,000 years ago. In the homes of wealthy Chinese, frozen fruit juices were served to the table. Alexander the Great also loved ice cream, and Hippocrates argued that it helps to get rid of the heat.
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Modern ice cream appeared in Russia in the 18th century. Earlier in Russia milk was mixed with honey, then the resulting mixture was frozen in portioned forms. On Shrovetide, a mixture of frozen cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream and raisins was also prepared.
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The famous traveler Marco Polo brought the ice cream recipe to Europe in 1295. Saltpeter was then used to cool this delicacy.
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They say that a special device for making ice cream was brought to the island of Saint Helena, where the French emperor Napoleon was exiled. A very illustrious general loved this delicacy. Even in exile he could not deny himself this pleasure.
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Back in the 19th century, ice cream was a very expensive delicacy that only wealthy segments of the population could afford.
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Popsicle ice cream was invented by Christian Nelson. He covered the sundae with chocolate icing and called this product "Eskimo Pai", which means "Eskimo pie".
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Ice cream on a stick was invented by accident. Frank Epperson accidentally left a glass of soda in the cold with a straw in it. Seeing the result the next morning, the resourceful Californian immediately patented this invention in 1905 and began to produce frozen lemonades, which he called popsicle. During the years of the Great Depression, this product began to be released with two sticks at once, so that one portion could be broken in half, if necessary.
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There are ice cream varieties in the world with the taste of fish, seafood, garlic, chili, cheese, mushrooms, bacon, tomato and celery. By the way, in the USSR in the 80s of the last century, tomato sherbet was also produced, but this exotic delicacy was not particularly popular among the population.
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Most ice cream is consumed in the USA, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand and Denmark. The cafe, which is located in Venezuela, offers more than 700 varieties of this dessert. This is the largest ice cream parlor in the world.
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In the United States, colds are treated not with honey and raspberries, but with hot water bottles with ice, cold showers and … special ice cream. It contains ginger, lemon juice and honey, and a version of medicated ice cream with cayenne pepper and bourbon.
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Ice cream is an excellent remedy for the prevention of tonsillitis, tonsillitis and pharyngitis. It hardens the throat and makes the mucous membrane less susceptible to temperature changes.
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The most expensive ice cream is served at the Serendipity restaurant (New York). Madagascar vanilla is added to this dessert and it is covered with a layer of edible gold. Exotic fruits, gold dragees, marzipan cherries and truffles are also served with this delicacy. The price of this dish also includes a special golden spoon, decorated with diamonds, which the visitor can pick up as a souvenir of how he tasted ice cream in New York for a lot of money.
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In 2002, a street ice cream vendor was arrested in Chile, who simply had no end to customers. It turned out that this resourceful Latin American entrepreneur added cocaine to ice cream. Its product was addictive to the people who consumed it.
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In 2006, a huge ice cream cake was made in Beijing. It weighed 8 tons, its length was 4.8 m, height - 1 m, width - 3 m. The cake was decorated with drawings of bears, and its production was part of an advertising campaign for the children's play "Ice Cream Mountain".
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In Moscow, they also made a huge two-meter snowman from ice cream. It weighed more than 300 kg and was made in the colors of the Russian tricolor. The Guinness Book of Records includes an ice cream cake made in 2011 in Canada. It weighed about 10 tons. The preparation of this dessert took 9 tons of ice cream, 136 kilograms of chocolate chips and 90 kilograms of biscuit.
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You can please and surprise guests with an unusual dessert - fried ice cream. To do this, freeze the ice cream ball very strongly, then roll it in flour, beaten egg and bread crumbs. The semi-finished product should be stored in the freezer, and immediately before serving, you need to deep-fry the ice cream very quickly.
