History

They say the Chinese were first

• It is the Chinese that are believed to have been the precursors of ice cream goodies. As early as 5 thousand years ago they began to produce a sort of ice cream desserts. They obtained them by crushing fruit in a bowl placed on a dish filled with frozen snow or ice cubes.

Frozen dish that lifts your spirits, i.e. ice cream in Greece

• This therapeutic method Hippocrates recommended to his patients. In order to bring out the flavor, the Ancient Greeks enriched their formula with delicious honey. 

Even Neron treated his palate to some ice cream

• Ancient Romans’ tables abounded in chilly ice cream desserts. Back then ice cream was obtained using snow from the Apennine Mountains, delivered by emperor’s slaves who formed a line from Rome as far as to the Apennine Range.

Marco Polo takes the credit for ice cream

• Although ice cream was known in Ancient Greece and Rome, it was Marco Polo who was credited with the European ice formula for those cold goodies. While travelling through China he stole the ice cream recipe and brought it to Italy.

Arabian sherbet

• Sherbet is a cold drink made from frozen juices, sieved fruit with addition of sugar. In fact it is the word “sherbet” that the sorbet ice cream name derives from. The Arabian sherbet was brought to Sicily, where Italians already knew what to do with it to make its taste even more delicious.

Italy - Europe

• It was in Italy where the expansion of the ice cream goodies originated, spreading over the whole Europe. The Italians became experts in preparing cold treats, which were becoming more and more popular. Ice cream arrived in France thanks to Catherine de‘ Medici but their actual propagator, who lived much later, was Louis XIV. In 1660 he gave permission to an Italian man, Francesco Procopio del Coltelli, to open the first ice cream parlor in Paris named Cafe Procope. It in the 18th century that ice cream became very popular in Europe.

Ice cream sensation in the USA

• Dolly Madison (President James Madison’s wife) created a real sensation when she served ice cream as a dessert in 1814 during her husband’s inaugural ball.

Ice technology

• The beginnings of the ice technology can be traced down to the United States. In 1843 a manual cooling machine was invented. Seven years later, however, an ice cream machine was first made in Australia.

Wafer patent

• In 1903 an Italian man, Marchioni, patented a wafer cone. However, whether he was the first one to come up with that idea is not known for sure. We can often hear that it was the English who first served ice cream on a wafer.

Stick in the ice cream

• There is nothing easier than to freeze fruit juice with a spoon/stirrer in a cardboard box and enjoy ice cream on a stick. Such were the actual beginnings of ice cream served on a stick. The patent for such a way of serving cold treats was granted to an American, Harry Burt, in 1924.

Ice cream in Poland

• The Saxon times gave rise to development of cold sweets in Poland. Since 1979 there is always the right time for Koral ice cream.