Ice cream is one of the most popular frozen desserts in the world.
The average American consumes about 23 pounds of ice cream and related frozen desserts each year.
Although ice cream has a long history, no specific date of origin or inventor is believed to be its discovery.
In 618-97 AD, China ate a food similar to ice cream for the first time.
The king of Shang and Tang ordered the "Iceman" to make a dish with water, milk, flour and camphor.
In 200 BC, China invented a new type of ice cream, in which a mixture of milk and rice was packaged and frozen in snow.
The explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) traveled to the Far East and brought back Italian recipes, which are now very similar to sherbet.
When the Italian Catherine de Medici became the wife of Henry II of France in 1553, he introduced similar frozen desserts to France.
It is said that the Roman emperor would send slaves to the top of the mountain to collect snow and bring it back to the village to season it, and then use it as a kind of ice cream.
In England, it is reported that King Charles I paid his personal chef £500 to keep his ice cream recipe secret.
Biblical references also indicate that King Solomon liked to drink iced drinks during the harvest.
Historians estimate that the official ice cream recipe as we know it today was developed sometime in the 16th century.
The first official description of ice cream in the United States came from a letter written by a guest of Maryland Governor William Braden in 1744.
The country's first ice cream advertisement appeared in the New York Gazette on May 12, 1777.
The International Dairy Association writes that a merchant record on Chatham Street in New York shows that President George Washington spent approximately $200 on ice cream in the summer of 1790.
According to reports, President Thomas Jefferson has a favorite 18-step ice cream recipe, similar to the Baked Alaska as we know it now.
Until 1800, ice cream was still a rare and exotic dessert enjoyed by the country’s elite, but ice cream making quickly became an American industry.
Ice cream production was started in 1851 by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell.
At the peak of the industrial revolution, the United States had all the technological advancements for mass production of ice cream, including steam power, mechanical refrigeration, homogenizers, electricity and motors, packaging machines, and new freezing processes and equipment.
Today, the total annual production of frozen dairy products in the United States exceeds 6.4 billion pounds.
In 1874, with the birth of ice cream soda or soda floats, the American soda fountain shop came into being.
Responding to religious criticism, because ice cream soda was eaten too "criminally indulgence" on Sundays.
Ice cream merchants eliminated carbonated water in the late 1890s and invented the ice cream "Sunday".
The name was eventually changed to "Sundae" to eliminate any connection with the Sabbath.
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