Ice cream (アイスクリーム, aisu kurīmu) is made by freezing milk, cream, eggs, sugar, flavoring, and other ingredients, then stirring well.
Freezing cream with high milk fat content requires a low temperature of -2°C or lower. In Italy at the beginning of the 16th century, it was discovered that this low temperature could be obtained by first adding glass to ice, and later the glass was replaced by salt.
Today, ice cream can be easily made with a refrigerator-freezer and an electric mixer, but until around the early Showa period, ice cream was made in households by spreading ice in a tub, sprinkling salt over it, placing a tub of ingredients in the center, and stirring it with a manual stirrer.
Soft serve ice cream is also often referred to as ice cream.
On pixiv, the tag is used for illustrations depicting ice cream itself or a character eating ice cream.
The petal-like substance that is formed when ice cream is scooped with a dispensing machine is a surefire way to make it look delicious.
- Soft serve - A type of ice cream with a fluffy texture made by adding more air. It is soft and easy to eat, but melts easily.
- Gelato - An Italian word meaning frozen. refers to frozen desserts of Italian origin.
- Dondurma - Ice cream of Turkish origin. Its greatest feature is that it stretches anyway. Literally.
- Cream soda / Cola float / Coffee float - A drink with ice cream floating on top.
- Shake - In this case, it refers to an American-style milkshake.
- Ice cream cake - Ice cream formed into a cake shape. You have probably seen this at least once on the food sample display shelf at Baskin Robbins.
- Crepe - Sometimes topped with ice cream (ice crepe).
- Parfait - Ice cream is usually used among various ingredients such as fruit and whipped cream.
- Sundae - A sweet treat made mainly with ice cream.
- Affogato - Contrary to a float, an ice cream dessert with a drink poured over it.
