Ice Cream History
Along with honey and fruit, what was another ingredient used in the first ice cream?
Ice or snow.
Ice Cream Sundaes used to be sold only one day a week. What day was it?
Sunday.
Name someone whose favorite flavor of ice cream is cotton candy.
Antonia, Huda, Jayden, or Zoe.
Ice Cream contains vitamins that are good for your body: Vitamin D, Vitamin A, and Calcium! Vitamin D helps your immune system. Vitamin A helps your vision. Calcium helps something in your body that you would have a tough time eating without. What does calcium help?
Teeth or bones.
Thomas Jefferson was a famous early American who had an 18-step recipe for making ice cream. What was Thomas Jefferson's most famous job?
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States of America.
Modern ice cream is made with three main ingredients: milk, sugar, and what else?
Ice
Name someone whose favorite flavor of ice cream is mint chocolate chip.
Belinda or Maizell.
What is ice cream called in Italy?
Gelato
Even before Europe, India, and China, what ancient culture first made ice cream?
Ancient Greece.
In World War II, airplane pilots would put milk, sugar, and water in a tube with a propeller on the front. They would attach the tube to their planes and then fly around. After their flight, the tube was filled with ice cream. Why did that work?
The planes fly at high altitudes where it is cold.
Name someone whose favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
Aleena or Boston.
What is a soda jerk?
Someone whose job it is to serve soda and ice cream.
Over 2,200 years ago, the ancient Chinese made ice cream by combining milk, snow, and what grain?
Rice
When making ice cream, all the ingredients have to be kept at temperatures below freezing. Ice cream makers use a combination of ice and one other ingredient to keep the ice cream that cold. What is the other ingredient?
Salt.
Name someone whose favorite flavor of ice cream is peanut butter chocolate.
Mr. Breakstone
Ice Cream used to be served only in cups. At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, an ice cream seller ran out of cardboard cups. Next to him, a chef from Syria offered to share his food rolled into a cone shape. From then on, this special kind of cone has been popular. What was the Syrian chef making?
Waffles
Nowadays, everyone can eat ice cream. But long ago, ice cream was only eaten by some people. Who got to enjoy this cold treat?
Royalty (kings, queens, or very wealthy people)
What is the difference between ice cream and sorbet?
Ice cream has milk as an ingredient. Sorbet does not.
What is the most popular flavor in the United States of America: Chocolate, Strawberry, or Vanilla?
Vanilla
Dippin' Dots is made from freezing ice cream ingredients with liquid nitrogen, which is far colder than ice. However, the result can be dangerous. What is dangerous about eating freshly made Dippin' Dots?
You can get a cold burn.