What is ice cream?

Ice Cream

Ice cream (derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners. In some cases, artificial flavourings and colourings are used in addition to, or instead of, the natural ingredients. The mixture of chosen ingredients is stirred slowly while cooling, in order to incorporate air and to prevent large ice crystals from forming. The result is a smoothly textured semi-solid foam that is malleable and can be scooped.

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Famous quotes containing the words ice cream, ice and/or cream:

    Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
    Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)

    Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Hank: It ain’t gonna be a bit different than it was in Redding, P.A. And we’re going over just as big.
    Queenie: Oh, Hank. Do you think so?
    Hank: Why it’s cream in the can, baby!
    James Gleason (1886–1959)