Iran's 2,000-year-old ice cream [video]
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream#History
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchāl
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faloodeh
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani_Sonnati
Aside, the end of the video mentions that Americans and Iranians prefer sweeter ice cream, while Europeans prefer ice cream with less fat and sugar.
I'm American and I find most American ice cream too sweet. I much prefer Italian-style ice cream (gelato) and custards for this reason. I also have a thing against modern thickeners. There needs to be an ice cream equivalent of the Reinheitsgebot. :-)
There is one exception: if you like the taste of cream, Panna cotta is very easy to make and a delicious dessert served with fresh fruit. It is thickened with gelatin instead of being a custard, so the cream flavor really comes through. To me it's even better than Philadelphia-style ice cream, which is also made without eggs.
I recently tried Thai rolled ice cream and did not care for it at all. There is almost no air in it (overrun) since it isn't churned, so I found the texture not at all pleasing.
That's odd, considering Gelato tends to have less fat and more sugar than American ice cream. [1]
I prefer Gelato, but it's obviously denser and more sugar-heavy than the equivalent scoop of plain ice cream.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2016/07/16/heres-the-s...
What can I say. Maybe the fact that gelato is denser and served warmer makes it seem less sweet? Cold dulls the taste so you'd expect the warmer gelato might taste sweeter. Maybe the eggs in custard make it seem less sweet, or maybe it's all in my head.
Gelato is decadent. I've always found american ice cream to be kind of bland and watery in comparison, like drinking skim milk vs. whole milk.
But as an example of an ice cream that’s entirely too sweet: anything from Coldstone.
The one exception I have to grocery store ice cream: I’ll buy Häagen-Dazs vanilla for making a Guinness float.
Regardless, enlightenment in Europe really distorted the west’s underdretending of east’s contribution to Europe’s ability to emerge from the Middle Ages, not just how to make ice cream.
Anyone who ever read Voltaire can get the idea. What’s more sad is Muslims with western education are further removed from their heritage.
But without the work of Muslim, Jewish and Zarathustra scholars, much of the ancient world’s knowledge would have been lost, and renesance in Europe would not have been possible.
There’s a great science show on the BBC, develope by a British-Iraqi scientist, that mentions innovations we no longer associate with Islam (many developed by Muslim scientists and scholars). For example: navigation tools like astrolabe, that made it possible for European “explores” to navigate their boats, and many others still in practice even today, like treatment for cataract with injection syringe etc (in some parts of the world, though longer in the west).
possible videos https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jim+Al-Khalili+... (many 2h+ long :)