{"id":47,"date":"2014-04-03T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:46:21","slug":"ice-cream-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/ice-cream-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various reports lay claim to the invention of ice-cream in different places around the globe. Many people believe that it was invented in China whilst there\u2019s no denying the strong Italian influence in the history of ice-cream.\u00a0 The truth is that nobody knows exactly who, why or when it was invented but we do know for sure that it\u2019s been around since the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> century BC.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alexander the Great is recorded as enjoying a helping of ice and snow which was flavoured with honey \/ nectar \u2013 does that sound like ice-cream to you? You bet, it also sounds like a rather nice flavour.\u00a0 There are also a few links to ice-cream in the bible \u2013 King Solomon was said to enjoy iced drinks at harvest time (not that I suppose he did much of the harvesting himself) and Nero Claudius Caesar who was emperor of Rome between 54 and 86 AD is recorded as sending slaves up to the mountains to fetch snow to flavour it with juices and fruits \u2013 all of this sounds remarkably like early attempts of ice-cream to me.<\/p>\n<p>So where do China and Italy come into the story? Well, I\u2019ll tell you . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Marco Polo is said to have returned from somewhere in the far east more than 1000 years later bringing with him a recipe now known as sherbet \u2013 historians are convinced that this was the original recipe which evolved into ice-cream in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Ice-cream did appear in the UK at around the same time so the Italians can\u2019t have all of the glory. Charles I was said to be particularly fond of \u201cCream Ice\u201d in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>So you see <!--<a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/ice-cream-supplies.html\">ice-cream<\/a>-->ice-cream has popped up throughout history in one form or another but we\u2019ve never got tired of it . . . it\u2019s as popular today as its ever been.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various reports lay claim to the invention of ice-cream in different places around the globe. Many people believe that it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ice-cream"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takeawaysupplies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}