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Sunday, July 24. 2022

Who invented Ice Cream?

Have you every poured some Maple Syrup on some fresh snow? That will pull out a tooth.


It seems that the invention of ice cream (or, maybe at first, sherbet) was somewhere in the Middle East. Then somebody added more luxurious ingredients (Bastani).


It is easy to forget that there is plenty of snow and ice in Lebanon and northern Iran. This stuff can be transported. In much more contemporary times, schooners from New England used to transport blocks of Cape Cod pond ice to India. There is still a business called Cape Pond Ice.



Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:58 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Homemade vanilla ice cream with real vanilla bean and as little sugar as possible, and Grade B dark maple syrup over the top. Can't be beat.
#1 Aggie on 2022-07-24 16:56 (Reply)
Ice cream is a construct of the white male patriarchy.
Have some this winter outside when it is ten degrees?
#2 JT Spaulding on 2022-07-24 17:49 (Reply)
The guy that invented the cone deserves some praise too.
Unfortunately, there's some dispute over who it was.
#3 Tom Appleton on 2022-07-24 20:22 (Reply)
Textbooks in sanitary engineering around 1900 had chapters on river and lake ice, how and where to harvest it, and how to store it. There used be very large barns in New York and New England with thick hay-filled walls that stored winter ice for the summer city markets.
#4 bob sykes (Link) on 2022-07-24 20:41 (Reply)

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