I scream, you scream,
We all scream
For ice cream!
According to several sources, today is Sundae Sunday or National Ice Cream Day. Whether it’s an official holiday or not, I say any excuse to celebrate with ice cream is a good excuse.
Here’s a great page with lots of information about ice cream, including poems, trivia, stories, and a list of thirty-one suggested ice cream sundaes, one for each day of July. Hurry up, you’re 16 days behind!
I think today would be a good day to make some good old-fashioned homemade ice cream. Unfortunately, I’m not sure we have an ice cream freezer that’s in working order. Has anyone else made homemade ice cream this summer? What’s your favorite flavor?
Did you know that:
The first ice cream is believed to have been made in Italy in about 1550. Or maybe it was invented in China. Or France (Catherine de Medici). Or England (Charles I). Or not.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both quite fond of ice cream, but it was Dolley Madison who served ice cream at her husband’s Inaugural Ball in 1813. President Jefferson’s recipe for vanilla ice cream.
According to this website, Americans eat the most ice cream, but New Zealanders consume the most ice cream per capita.
80 percent of the world’s vanilla bean used for ice cream is grown in Madagascar.
French vanilla ice cream has a high fat content and enough eggs to give it a yellow color. It usually contains small bits of vanilla bean.
Spumone, an Italian ice cream, is made of a layer of chocolate ice cream, a layer of vanilla, and a layer of rum-flavored whipped cream
Gelato, another Italian product, is characterized by an intense flavor and is served in a semi-frozen state that is similar to “soft serve” ice cream. Italian-style gelato is more dense than ice cream, since it has less air in the product. Typically, gelato has more milk than cream and also contains sweeteners, egg yolks and flavoring.which contains chopped nuts and fruits. (Eldest Daughter became a fan of gelato when she was in Italy a couple of years ago, but I have yet to try it.)
