Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell pg 123-165

Summary

In European history there are people and rulers who have some sort of connection with ice cream. The first cookbook to ever contain a recipe for ice cream was Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts in 1718. Mary Eales was a confectioner to Queen Anne. The recipe was mainly cream which could be plain or sweetened with a little fruit. In the recipe it was required to place pots of the ice cream mixture into a pail, placing the pail over straw and piling up ice and bay salt around it. After put ice on the top, cover it with more straw and set it in a place where no sun light can get to it, mainly a Cellar. Then the ice cream would be frozen in four hours.

Catherine de' Medici, queen of France left her native country of Italy in order to marry the duc d’Orleans of France at the age of fourteen. After the dauphin Francois died, his brother duc d’Orleans inherited the kingdom. In the nineteenth century, a tale arose that Catherine brought her own confectioners with her to France, and they started to teach the French how to make ice cream. This legend started to be told around the time when the appeal for ice cream was spreading rapidly.

In 1904 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition celebrated the territory the United States required from Frace. At the Exposition Abe Doumar, from Syria emigrated to the United States and worked at fairs around the country. At night Abe was a zalabia salesman. Zalabia is a kind of crips waffle which he sold for a penny. He got the idea that he could make a ten cent profit instead. Abe rolled the warm zalabia into a cone and added ice cream to it. He called it "a kind of Syrian ice-cream sandwich". This idea spread through concessions.

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"The Push Pop that Gary Snow enjoyed so much is still around, still shaped like a tube, with cardboard underneath and encircling the sherbet (now it comes in at least two flavours) (Powell 140)."

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Many times Marilyn Powell will talk about ice cream products that are still being produced today. By doing this the reader can see that certain products are what was popular in earlier years, and how they are even sometimes made better as time goes on. This even could be due to the fact that certain people continue to get the same products at stores because it is what they like.