Ice cream

📖 In short

Ice cream is a delicious cold treat that grown-ups and children love, especially in hot summers. It's usually made from milk, cream and sugar, mixed with fruit, chocolate or vanilla, then frozen.

🤩 Did you know?

Ice cream cones were first served in 1904.
Ice cream comes in lots of flavors, the most popular being vanilla and chocolate.
Eating ice cream too fast can cause a sudden pain in your head called “brain freeze”.
Ice cream has a lot of sugar, so we eat it in moderation.

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🌟 The secret of smoothness

When ice cream is made, the mixture is stirred all the time while it freezes, so air gets in and no big ice chunks form, making it smooth and soft instead of like a block of ice.

🔍 An old story

Long ago people mixed snow brought from the mountains with honey and fruit juice. The ice cream we know today came from this cold treat.

💡 Syrian ice cream

Damascus has a famous ice cream made with milk, mastic and salep. The seller pounds it with a big wooden pestle until it's stretchy, then covers it with Aleppo pistachios.

🎯 Crispy cones

Ice cream was first served in biscuit cones at a big fair, when the ice cream seller ran out of dishes, so a pastry seller next door rolled wafers into cone shapes!