Who invented ice-cream?

Answer 1

The Chinese are thought to have invented ancient form of "ice cream" about 4,000 years ago, was brought to Europe in Italy.... but its nothing like it is today. Modern Ice Cream was first concieved by Englishwoman Mrs. Mary Eales... her Cookbook 'Mrs.Mary Eales's Receipts' 1718 is the 1st to have recipe for modern Ice Cream. True Ice Cream as we have today is from England. (Italy is regarded as making worlds best Ice cream) Mrs. Mary Eales is listed on the cover of her book Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts as confectioner to her late Majesty Queen Anne, there is no external verification or disproval of this claim. It was the first English book to include a recipe for Ice Cream. Ice cream recipes first appear in 18th century England. A recipe for ice cream was published in Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts in 1718. To ice CREAM. Take Tin Ice-Pots, fill them with any Sort of Cream you like, either plain or sweeten'd, or Fruit in it; shut your Pots very close; to six Pots you must allow eighteen or twenty Pound of Ice, breaking the Ice very small; there will be some great Pieces, which lay at the Bottom and Top: You must have a Pail, and lay some Straw at the Bottom; then lay in your Ice, and put in amongst it a Pound of Bay-Salt; set in your Pots of Cream, and lay Ice and Salt between every Pot, that they may not touch; but the Ice must lie round them on every Side; lay a good deal of Ice on the Top, cover the Pail with Straw, set it in a Cellar where no Sun or Light comes, it will be froze in four Hours, but it may stand longer; than take it out just as you use it; hold it in your Hand and it will slip out. When you wou'd freeze any Sort of Fruit, either Cherries, Rasberries, Currants, or Strawberries, fill your Tin-Pots with the Fruit, but as hollow as you can; put to them Lemmonade, made with Spring-Water and Lemmon-Juice sweeten'd; put enough in the Pots to make the Fruit hang together, and put them in Ice as you do Cream

Answer 2

ice cream was invented in china