The history of ice-cream

The Italian ice cream are famous not only for the excellent flavor but also for their ancient origins. We can say that the history of ice cream in the world begins in Italy. The tradition of eating this cake existed also in ancient Rome. Probably already at that time somebody ate a cold dessert which looked like the ice cream, made of ice cubes with addition of juice, fruit and honey. At that time there were no refrigerators, the ancients Romans (of course only those who could afford it) sent their servants to the mountains to bring ice cubes. So as we see the primary ingredient of the first ice cream was water, not milk. From the Middle Ages comes an interesting story: the Arabs who lived in Sicily often ate a special ice cream: fruit juice mixed with the snow from Etna. The name sorbet derives exactly from the Arabic expression that meant fresh snow (in Turkish serbet). A real ice cream boom arrived in the Renaissance. In the sixteenth century at the court of Medici in Florence someone did an important discovery: adding a little bit of salt to the ice cream, make their temperature lower. This was the first step towards the invention of modern sorbet. The recipe of Medici let the ice cream spread around Europe.