ABOUT ICECREAM
The first ice cream was discovered in China approximately 3 thousands years ago.
Europe meets ice cream when Marco Polo brings the icy drink recipes that he learns in China trip in 1296. While Aztecs use the snows that they take from the hills of mountains to refrigerate their foods and drinks , the snows which are in Andres mountains in Peru and Colombia are used for the purpose of refrigerating. With the arrival of Portuguese and Italians to Latin America, ice cream has become widespread. Portuguese and Italians who know making one kind ice cream by mixing snow and sugar, give rise to invent ice cream with vanilla and cacao after meeting vanilla and cacao here.
And in Anatolia, at the first term of Ottoman Empire, there was a tradition of drinking candy which is made of snow or ice stored in ice cellar after they are collected at high Anatolia champaign. Ice cream's history that starts with Karsambaç, made of molasses, honey and pulps added to the snow in Anatolia based on 17. century.
In this period, eating ice cream that becomes widespread in every segment of society causes to be developed different kind of production especially in Maraş.
Nowadays ice cream that is named Maraş ice cream is different from the examples in the world. Till the near future, the feature of this ice cream prepared by hand power , classic method was being hard enough to be cut. Nowhere in the world can be seen to this kind of ice cream made of goat's milk, sugar and orchid.