History
Persia
Persian ice cream today is a popular treat to conclude the Iranian cuisine.In
400 BCE, Persians invented a special chilled pudding-like dish, made of
rosewater and vermicelli, working out as something like a cross between
a sorbet and a rice pudding, was served to the royalty during summers.
The Persians had already mastered the technique of storing ice inside
giant naturally cooled refrigerators known as yakhchals. These storages
kept ice brought in from the winter or from nearby mountains well into
the summer. The storages worked by using tall windcatchers that kept the
sub-level storage space at frigid temperatures. The ice was then mixed
in with saffron, fruits, and various other flavors. The treat, widely
made today in Iran, is called "faludeh", which is made from
starch (wheat, probably), spun in a kind of sieve-like contraption which
produces threads or drops of the batter, which are boiled in water. The
mix is then frozen, and mixed with rosewater and lemons, before serving.
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See also Kulfi, another originally Persian form of the ice cream.
Arabia
Ice cream was the favourite dessert for the Caliphs of Baghdad, Arabs
were the first to make it or at least commercially as there were ice cream
factories in the 10th century and the first to sugar Ice cream, it was
sold in markets of all Arab cities in the past. It was made of a chilled
syrup or milk with fruits and some nuts. Arabs introduced gelato to the
west through Sicily. There are many kinds of Arabian Ice cream "Butha"
we can find in the market they have advantages of being healthy and fresh
as they are made of fresh milk.
China
There are several popular legends surrounding the discovery of ice cream.
Saltpeter was used for the production of gunpowder in China, and the Chinese
discovered that saltpeter in water caused the water to absorb heat, thus
creating ice in summer.[1] The Chinese put sugar in the ice and sold it
as food during the summer. It is believed that the Song Dynasty (??) was
the time when people began putting fruit juice in the water used to create
the ice; milk was beginning to be used in the Yuan dynasty (??), however,
due to lack of dairy products in Chinese cuisine it is unlikely that this
is true.
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