Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell pg 43-83

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.