International holidays - World Ice Cream Day

Mass sales of the favorite dessert of adults and children made from dairy products started on June 10, 1786 In honor of this event, ice cream lovers established World Ice Cream Day The initiators of the holiday were the American company Ben & Jerry’s, or rather two young men - Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield After completing culinary courses, the friends opened an ice cream parlor, which, to their surprise, quickly became popular In honor of their anniversary, they decided to give away free treats This is how the tradition of celebrating World Ice Cream Day began World Ice Cream Day traditions are very diverse In honor of the holiday, tastings, ice cream festivals and competitions with prize drawings are held On June 10, excursions are organized to enterprises producing ice cream, popsicles, sorbets and other frozen desserts Manufacturers also present new types of ice cream, and consumers post photos of their favorite delicacy on the Internet The ice cream recipe was known to people 4 thousand years ago In Ancient China and Antiquity, snow and pieces of ice were added to crushed fruits Hippocrates recommended eating ice cream to strengthen the immune system In the Middle Kingdom they made a mixture of ice, rice and milk, and the recipe for the dessert was kept a great secret After his campaign in Persia and India, Alexander the Great liked the taste of ice cream so much that to prepare this dessert, slaves delivered ice and snow from the mountain peaks to the commander For Nero, snow was brought from the Alps to prepare frozen juices; ice cellars were built for its storage Napoleon Bonaparte was also known as a fan of this sweet Even during his exile in Augur 1815 on the island of St Helena, the French emperor was brought a device for making ice cream It is believed that Europe learned about the delicacy at the turn of the 13th-14th centuries thanks to Marco Polo’s travels to China However, in Kievan Rus they began to prepare ice cream much earlier It was served to the table in the form of finely shaved frozen milk But on Maslenitsa they made another similar dessert, the recipe of which included a mixture of frozen sour cream, cottage cheese, raisins and sugar English settlers brought ice cream recipes to America In 1774, British entrepreneur Philip Lenzi said that he arrived from London with recipes for various desserts Among them was something as rare as ice cream And although the first refrigeration machines for its preparation were patented in the USA in 1848, the delicacy went on sale much earlier - in 1786 At the beginning of the twentieth century invented the popsicle, and in 1919 - eskimo pie: chocolate-glazed ice cream, which was called “Eskimo pie” In parallel with this, ice cream, sorbet and other types of dessert appeared Ice cream production technology is constantly being improved, new recipes, brands and manufacturers are appearing Not all fans of the delicacy buy it in the store - many make their favorite dessert at home The world's population consumes 15 billion liters of ice cream annually A portion of the product is purchased every 3 seconds Fans of the delicacy are especially active in purchasing and tasting it on World Ice Cream Day, which is celebrated annually on June 10