Summary
The Holstein supplies most of the milk used in the U.S. that is used for making ice cream. The U.S. is also the country that makes most of the ice cream in the world. Milk is the most important ingredient in ice cream.
In legend, the Moghuls, descendants of Genghis Khan and Timur Lane introduced ice cream into India. The Mongol story is that a horsemen was riding in the Himalayas, carrting a sack of yak's milk. The temperature was below freezing, and the vibration from the horse churned the milk creating the wrold's first ice cream. Abul Fazl Allami was commanded by Akbar to write the Institutions of Akbar, where there is evidence of kulfi. Kulfi is prepared in the royal kitchens, using khoya which is milk that is boiled slowly over a fire. Because of the many dishes the Moghuls got from Indian cooking, kulfi is said to be of Persian origin. These type of ice cream dates back to Moghuls emperors.
On September 9, 1843, Nancy M. Johnson received a patent for her rtifical freezer. Johnson's machine was more efficent than other ice cream makers. The crank turned the dasher continuously, which stirred the mixture non-stop, moving ice particles to the centre, making the ice cream smoother, lighter, and creamier.
In 1881, in Wisconsin, a druggist named Edward Berner gave a customer an ice cream with chololate syrup after they asked for a soda. For only five cents anyone could buy the new ice cream with syrup, but only on Sundays. One day a little girl came in n a weekday and suggested a pretend Sunday. They allowed her to have the Sunday, and the soda-less Sunday was invented.
Quote
"It would be impossible to know for sure who was the first among Europeans to add milk to ice cream. Probably the Italians" (Powell 51)
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Even though Marilyn Powell's answers are not all answered excatly from hisory, she still gives inferences on certain topics. Even though these are not actual facts, she still backs up her inferences by going deeper after the statement she makes. She does give a lot of history behind her statements which explains how she comes up with her inferences and also other possibilites that might be correct.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell pg 1-42
Summary
Marilyn Powell srats off her hisrory if ice cream by strating with only ice. She introduces ice by talking about how different nations and cultures such as Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Sicilians first used ice. Also how ice travels socially from culture to culture. An important part of early ice, was the Eureka, or the icebox, that was able to store about 600 pounds of ice. Before the icebox, ice houses were used by kings, and conquerors to store large amounts of ice. By the 1930's, an ice cream culture had developed.
During intense summers, people from many cultures would go up moutanis such as the Taurus range, the Atlas mountains, and the Himalayas in order to collect ice and snow. Snow was harvested as a crop and was sold in many marketplaces.
There are many traditions to how poeple can use snow. One Canadian tradtion is when the snow would fall, people would collect it right away while it was still fresh, fluffy, and pure. Then they would add vanilla extract and sugar, making "snow-bread". In China, there are very few commercial freezers, and very few people have home freezers. In China ice cream is only for children, and it can primarily be bought in the big Chinese cities like Beijing, and Shanghai.
Icemen use to go to a place called Walden Pound where they would harvest the ice with farm tools, cutting it into cakes and getting ten thousand tons' worth. But this method would soon be replaced as the first electric refrigerators were being manufactured in France and United States in 1917.
Quote
"In another e-mail from Raja Alem, she mentions that she and her sister, Shadia, used to mix fruit with snow that they collected from outside their grandmother's door in Taif, Saudi Arabia" (Powell 21).
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As Marilyn Powell goes into different cultures and stories about the past of ice and ice cream, I can already see that she has done a lot of history these different stories. As shown in the quote, she often times will mention personal stories that she hears from other people she has interacted with. Refering back to personal stories is a srtong method for Marilyn Powell to use, because it steps aside from giving the reader researched information, and it gives insite from other people and their relationship with ice cream.
Marilyn Powell srats off her hisrory if ice cream by strating with only ice. She introduces ice by talking about how different nations and cultures such as Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Sicilians first used ice. Also how ice travels socially from culture to culture. An important part of early ice, was the Eureka, or the icebox, that was able to store about 600 pounds of ice. Before the icebox, ice houses were used by kings, and conquerors to store large amounts of ice. By the 1930's, an ice cream culture had developed.
During intense summers, people from many cultures would go up moutanis such as the Taurus range, the Atlas mountains, and the Himalayas in order to collect ice and snow. Snow was harvested as a crop and was sold in many marketplaces.
There are many traditions to how poeple can use snow. One Canadian tradtion is when the snow would fall, people would collect it right away while it was still fresh, fluffy, and pure. Then they would add vanilla extract and sugar, making "snow-bread". In China, there are very few commercial freezers, and very few people have home freezers. In China ice cream is only for children, and it can primarily be bought in the big Chinese cities like Beijing, and Shanghai.
Icemen use to go to a place called Walden Pound where they would harvest the ice with farm tools, cutting it into cakes and getting ten thousand tons' worth. But this method would soon be replaced as the first electric refrigerators were being manufactured in France and United States in 1917.
Quote
"In another e-mail from Raja Alem, she mentions that she and her sister, Shadia, used to mix fruit with snow that they collected from outside their grandmother's door in Taif, Saudi Arabia" (Powell 21).
Reaction
As Marilyn Powell goes into different cultures and stories about the past of ice and ice cream, I can already see that she has done a lot of history these different stories. As shown in the quote, she often times will mention personal stories that she hears from other people she has interacted with. Refering back to personal stories is a srtong method for Marilyn Powell to use, because it steps aside from giving the reader researched information, and it gives insite from other people and their relationship with ice cream.
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