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History:
Originally, the ice cream was certainly not what we know. In ancient times, probably, you refrigeravano fruit, milk and honey to make nutritious food. There is a European study on food stored in ice by Neanderthal populations, which hid in the snow, in order to preserve their life, berries and pieces of deer meat and dried fruits. Following the most advanced nations met through breeding what was the iced milk, food not uncommon in winter.
The Arab domination in Sicily:
The cultivation of sugar cane is imported into Sicily and Spain by the Arabs in the ninth century. Sugar is the main ingredient for the preparation of sorbet: the Arabs used to prepare infusions made from water, sugar, herbs and spices. The sorbets were cooled through the endothermic process caused by the addition of salts in the ice: this was the way to freeze sorbets, putting them in containers surrounded by ice and salt. This tradition was, in fact, imported in Sicily where some findings testify to the existence of ice Sicilian Apennines: it was natural or human constructions used to conserve the snow during the winter and then be sold in blocks during spring seasons and summer.
The Arab writer Ibn Ankal writes: "Along the beach, near Palermo, grows vigorously the barrel of Persia and completely covers the ground, and from it the juice is extracted by pressure."
Also in Sicily was plenty of sea salt and snow (Mount Etna, the mountains Hyblaean the Madonie). Born on the island of Sardinia products such as carapigna, obtained crafting sheep's milk and dried fruit (in times closer to us replaced with lemon peel) with mountain snow and that will come, but only during the Renaissance, the banquets of kings of the West as Charles V, King of Spain. References to this practice will encounter both in ancient texts and in the detailed vintage best known.