Rédey Judit: Hideg nyalat és spanyol tekercs. A fagylalt, a jégkrém és a parfé története (Budapest, 2007)

custards. Additionally, you can buy many kinds of modern home appliances for making ice cream today, so you can make your homemade ice cream in minutes. It is laudable that ice cream bowls have come back into fashion. There harmonic tastes are added to an artistic look, which lends the enjoyment of the icy délicatesse even more charm and ceremony. Ice cream even got to space in 1982, on board the Columbia space flight. The career of our favorite dessert spreads from ancient ages, the dawn of humanity up to the cosmos of the coming space age. THE HISTORY OF THE ICE CREAM SCOOP We do not know how and from what receptacle people ate icy dainties in the lands of ancient times. Since they could mostly resemble sorbet or ice sherbet, it is likely that they were drunk or slurped rather than eaten with spoons. Therefore their offering or portioning required no special utensil, either. It is likely that similar to other drinks, cold sherbet was poured into goblets or chalices. With the appearance of ice cream and glace parfait, which have a more solid and creamier consistency, the delicacy required some kind of portioning and eating tools. First ice cream was sliced by knives, which custom is alive even today in the case of frozen custard and ice cream pies. The first patent for an ice cream scoop comes from 1876. As is the case with many other inventions surrounding ice cream, this one also came from the United States. The prototype was cone-shaped, made of steel or tin. Its handling was a little difficult, since portioning required the use of both hands, and an extraordinary dexterity to open the lid closing the cone. You still had to wait eighteen more years for the single-hand scoop. Then the seller could hold the scoop in one hand while his other hand was holding the plate where he wished to deposit the icy sweetmeat. The next milestone in the history of the ice cream scoop was the transformation of the cone portions into balls. This followed the patenting of the ice cream cone in the beginning of the 20

lh century. The material of the scoop shaping the lump also changed, with metal handles often replaced by wood, and the "head" of the scoop receiving nickel plating. The small lid was replaced by a flexible tonguelet operated with a spring, similar to the scoop of our days. The best type of scoop still used today is tied to the Fagylalt adagoló kanál fagylalt kelyhekkel Ice cream portion scoop with ice cream bowls