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The First Steps in History
When its very hot, we seek relief with cold drinks and cold foods if this still happens now, in spite of the fact that the modern installations of air conditioning improve our situation to this respect, without doubt occurred also before, in the distant times in which to be provided somewhat fresh in summer should constitute all an authentic challenge, for lack of any adequate technique to produce cold. Thus, a logical predisposition exists to believe that the ice cream is a modern invention, tied all invention of the artificial cold nevertheless, is evident to us that already before ice cream and that many historic personages appreciated the primitive versions of this delicacy.
The Roman Refrigerators
It is known that the old Romans used already some ingenious "refrigerators". was a matter of caves or stone walls pits, natural or excavated by the way during the winter, they accumulated snow in their interior; they pressed it until forming a compact and hard mass and they cut it off from the outside by means of straw, fabrics and slabs of stone. At the moment to be exact, they removed something of the precious snow and they mixed it with fruits and honey, a delicacy that, according to is counted, was Nero, that if the reserves were exhausted, there was snow since the Alps that dispense with the candy in question. And seems that Alexander the Great once felt a certain weakness by the same delicacy and had "refrigerators" built.
The " Turkish sherbet"
In the caliphate of Baghdad that they called us the combination of snow and juices of fruit. The Turkish aromatization of snow with flowers (roses, violates) and spices. With all this we have already the base of the ice creams, particularly of the iced drinks and straws. But until we manage to arrive to the industrial production of our days we remain still in a long road that we travel through.
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