Ice cream didn't originate in actually in
one place at one eureka moment.
In the fifteenth century, scientists experimented
with freezing techniques.
They would submerge a bottle of wine in a
bucket of ice and salt and sort of move it
around and what resulted was what I call "wine
slushies".
Someone said "let's try freezing one of those
custards that we've been making and see how
that works".
And before long, you start to see recipes
in books for ice cream.There's a book by a
Frenchman, M. Emy (we don't really know his
first name), but he wrote the first book totally
devoted ice cream and he has dozens of flavors.
And he was also one who gave instructions
on molding ice creams.
They love at that time to mold ice creams
into shapes like turkey legs, fish, and a
kind of dining joke was to serve these ice
creams and let people think that they were
about to dig into some fish or some ham when
they are actually going to have ice cream.
Thomas Jefferson is famous for having loved
ice cream.
In fact when he was in France, he wrote down
a recipe for vanilla ice cream and brought
it back to Monticello where he could have
this ice cream made.
So he was fine with having ice cream whenever
he wanted but of course at the time that was
before the ice industry and before easier
to use ice cream makers so most people were
not enjoying ice cream then on regular basis.
You know people always ask me what my favorite
ice cream is and I have such a hard time answering
that because I like so many different kinds.
If I'm making ice cream I really life orange
flower water ice cream, I like coffee with
walnuts, I like burnt caramel a lot.
I like pistachio; I could go on.
