Soft Serve Flavor of the Week: Apple Spice
Thanks to the guys from Gigaroo 3! We had a great time listening to some great music! We hope everyone enjoyed the food! Thanks to all the great customers we had!
Some pics from our family fun day on July 8th, 2006, for our 35th anniversary celebration!
Thanks to everyone who came out to our 35th Anniversary week at The Kool Kone. We had a fun week and we appreciate our customers support. Thirty five cent hamburgers was a great turn out. And our griiled thirty five cent hotdogs were a hot treat and thirty five cent ice cream cones on friday helped us build up to our family fun day on Saturday July 8th for our anniversary party. We had a wonderful turn out and we thank all who showed up to help us celebrate and give back to the poeple that have kept us here for those thirty five years. Thanks to all who helped including (but not limited to), First of all Richard and Bonnie Norris, for whose help not much of anything would get accomplished, Roup and Marilyn Clark, for always lending a hand, our wonderful staff here at The Kool Kone for without them The Kool Kone would not be what it is, Jennifer Bothell and Tyler Norris for taking the time to entertain the kids as Spongebob Squarepants, and lets not forget Crissy's bikini bottom rendition of the hokey pokey, Jennifer Asbury for helping out the crafts and just being there to lend us a hand and thanks to her for all The Kool Kone decor, Dave and Joyce Wheatley, Eric and Amy Wheatley, for bringing out Willow and Buchaneer for all the kids to ride, Rebecca Couch and Stephanie Dobrosky, for thier wonderful painting talents, Kayla Knupp, for lending a hand in ice cream , Bill and Theresa Uptegraph for the picnic tables, The Barn Hill Country Band, The Solid Rock Church Of God, Outrageous Entertainment, Bud Shannon, Bonnie Townsend (for being willing), Bob Townsend (for being The Kool Kone BS'er), Costume World, Rich Norris, Tom Norris, Jim and Kim Norris and family, the man who invented ice cream, and last but not least, how could we forget our old pal, Spongebob!Look for more upcoming fun things to do this summer at The Kool Kone. Watch for a car cruise in August. Watch our myspace for new soft serve flavors and have a GREAT SUMMER!Ice Cream Humor
Q. How do astronauts eat their ice creams
A. In floats
Q: How do you make a dinosaur float?
A: Put a scoop of ice cream in a glass of root beer and add one dinosaur!
Q: What do you get from an Alaskan cow ?
A: Ice Cream
Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi a'la mode.
Knock! Knock!
Who's there?
Ice cream soda!
Ice cream soda who?
ICE CREAM SODA PEOPLE CAN HEAR ME...
I'd like to meet:
EVERYONE!
C Courageous
R Relaxing
I Industrious
S Sophisticated
S Sultry
Y Yum
P Primitive
A Astonishing
T Tough
R Responsible
I Insane
C Controversial
K Keen
Movies:
Precursors of Ice Cream
People living in sufficiently cold climates have probably always taken advantage of snow and ice by flavoring them with fruit and honey. The ancients had saved ice for their desire of cool culinary for thousands of years. Mesopotamia has the earliest icehouses, dated 4,000 years old, in existence beside the Euphrates River, where the wealthy stored their items to keep them cold. The Pharaohs of Egypt had ice shipped to them. In the 5th century BC ancient Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of Athens. Roman emperor Nero had ice brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. Today's ice treats likely originated with these ice culinaries made long ago.
Persia
Bastani, Persian rosewater ice cream, is typically served between wafers as an ice cream sandwich.In 400 BCE, Persians invented a special chilled pudding-like dish, made of rosewater and vermicelli, working out as something like a cross between a sorbet and a rice pudding, was served to the royalty during summers. The Persians had already mastered the technique of storing ice inside giant naturally cooled refrigerators known as yakhchals. These storages kept ice brought in from the winter or from nearby mountains well into the summer. The storages worked by using tall windcatchers that kept the sub-level storage space at frigid temperatures. The ice was then mixed in with saffron, fruits, and various other flavors. The treat, widely made today in Iran, is called "faludeh", which is made from starch (wheat, probably), spun in a kind of sieve-like contraption which produces threads or drops of the batter, which are boiled in water. The mix is then frozen, and mixed with rosewater and lemons, before serving.
Arabia
Ice cream was the favourite dessert for the Caliphs of Baghdad, Arabs were the first to make it or at least commercially as there were ice cream factories in the 10th century and the first to sugar Ice cream, it was sold in markets of all Arab cities in the past. It was made of a chilled syrup or milk with fruits and some nuts. Arabs introduced gelato to the west through Sicily. There are many kinds of Arabian Ice cream "Butha" we can find in the market they have advantages of being healthy and fresh as they are made of fresh milk.
China
According to Mageulonne Toussaint-Samat in her History of Food, "the Chinese may be credited with inventing a device to make sorbets and ice cream. They poured a mixture of snow and saltpetre over the exteriors of containers filled with syrup, for, in the same way as salt raises the boiling-point of water, it lowers the freezing-point to below zero." The Chinese put sugar in the ice and sold it as food during the summer. It is believed that the Song Dynasty was the time when people began putting fruit juice in the water used to create the ice; milk was beginning to be used in the Yuan dynasty , however, due to lack of dairy products in Chinese cuisine it is unlikely that this is true. It should be noted that the Yuan dynasty was controlled by the Mongols, not an ethnically Chinese group. Mongolian cuisine did feature the use of dairy products.
The West
Popular tradition asserts that Marco Polo saw ice cream being made on his trip to China and took the recipe home to Italy with him on his return. However, Marco Polo in his writings never claimed to introduce ice cream to the west.
When Catherine de Medici married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her Italian chefs who had recipes for flavored ices or sorbets. One hundred years later Charles I of England was supposedly so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered his own ice cream maker a lifetime pension in return for keeping the formula secret, so that ice cream could be a royal prerogative. There is, however, no historical evidence to support these legends, which first appeared during the 19th century.
The first recipe for flavored ices in French appears in 1674, in Nicholas Lemery’s Recueil de curiositéz rares et nouvelles de plus admirables effets de la nature.
Recipes for sorbetti saw publication in the 1694 edition of Antonio Latini's Lo Scalco alla Moderna (The Modern Steward).
Recipes for flavored ices begin to appear in François Massialot's Nouvelle Instruction pour les Confitures, les Liqueurs, et les Fruits starting with the 1692 edition. Massialot's recipes result in a coarse, pebbly texture. However, Latini claims that the results of his recipes should have the fine consistence of sugar and snow.
Modern ice cream
It was in the 18th century that cream, milk, and egg yolks began to feature in the recipes of previously dairy-free flavored ices, resulting in ice cream in the modern sense of the word. The 1751 edition of The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy by Hanna Glasse features a recipe for raspberry cream ice. 1768 saw the publication of L'Art de Bien Faire les Glaces d'Office by M. Emy, a cookbook devoted entirely to recipes for flavored ices and ice cream.
Ice cream was introduced to the United States by colonists who brought their ice cream recipes with them. Confectioners, many of whom were Frenchmen, sold ice cream at their shops in New York and other cities during the Colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were among the elite who regularly ate and served ice cream. Dolley Madison is also closely associated with the early history of ice cream in the United States. In 1843, Nancy Johnson became the first American to patent a handcranked ice cream freezer. This was followed by the invention of the ice cream soda. It was probably invented by Robert Green in 1874, although there is no conclusive evidence to prove his claim. The ice cream sundae originated in the late 19th Century. Several men claimed to have created the first sundae, but there is no solid evidence to back up any of their stories. Some versions say that the sundae was invented to circumvent the Blue Laws, which forbade serving sodas on Sunday. Both the ice cream cone and banana split were popularized in the first years of the 20th century.
Heroes:
Jesus,The man who invented ice cream, Tom Savini
