There is a serious debate that goes on between ice cream connoisseurs. Some people say vanilla ice cream came first, while others say chocolate ice cream came first. Instead of picking a side, we decided to present some simple facts and let you decide which ice cream came first chocolate or vanilla.
The earliest frozen chocolate recipe was published in The Modern Steward by Antoni Latini in 1693. Cocoa was readily available in the form of coffee and tea, so it makes sense that people would freeze those beverages to eventually create a frozen chocolate treat.
Vanilla ice cream, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to appear in any ice cream recipe until the 1760s. Unlike cocoa, vanilla was not available to anyone. In fact, vanilla was rarely found in common households and only available to royalty. There are some publications that state vanilla ice cream was served in royal courts, but there is little evidence to back that up in the form of handwritten recipes.
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