Four thousand years ago, the Chinese were already making a kind of blanduce paste from iced milk. This dessert was reserved for the affluent class and was a symbol of great wealth.
In Europe, ice cream made from milk and fruit suddenly appeared in Italy in the 14th century, and the credit for these desserts was wrongly attributed to Marco Polo and a Tuscan pastry cook, Bernardo Buontalenti.
In 1533, when Catherine de Medici married the son of Francis I, the future Henry II, King of France, used Italian fruit ice cream to show the rest of the world the culinary qualities of his country.
In the 1920s, the American confectioner Harry Burt of Youngs-town, Ohio, devised the first ice cream supported by a stick.
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