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The Great Ice Cream Book

By Jon Croft

Published 1984

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Everyone loves ice cream. It is a universal food that is fun and that can be enjoyed at almost any time of the day, in summer or in winter. It will surprise some people to discover that restaurants find little variance in requests for ice creams and sorbets from one season to the next.

The history of ice creams and water ices is a long one. It is generally believed to be the Chinese who developed the art of making iced sweets. About 10 centuries ago they used to chill their fruit and tea drinks with ice, and it was from these early experiments that the fruit flavoured ices first appeared. The Chinese taught the art of making iced sweets to the Indians, Persians and Arabs. In Europe the iced sweet first made an appearance in renaissance times in Italy, in the form of a sorbetto. It was the great chefs of Italy who first realised the gastronomic potentials of ice creams and water ices and who introduced the art to the French. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries ices became very fashionable and with the developments in refrigeration in the 20th century it became possible for everyone to make ice creams.

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