Fried ice cream🇨🇳🇺🇸🇫🇷🇯🇵 is a dessert made of a scoop of ice cream that is frozen hard, breaded or coated in a batter, and quickly deep-fried, creating a warm, crispy shell around the still-cold ice cream.
The most common version about the origin of fried ice cream says that its homeland is France🇫🇷.
Thomas Jefferson was then president of the United States🇺🇸. As you know, in 1789 Jefferson returned from France🇫🇷, where he worked as an ambassador, with ice cream recipes and the necessary equipment.
A controversial dish, because some consider this amazing dessert an invention of Chinese🇨🇳 chefs, others – French🇫🇷. And those who are interested in the history of cooking have unearthed that the first written mention of this dish dates back to the end of the 18th century, and it was made by one of the Americans🇺🇸 who was present at the White House for dinner, where hot ice cream was served as an unusual dessert.
There are still conflicting stories about the origin of the dessert. Some claim that it was first served during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, where the ice cream sundae was also invented.Though in 1894, a Philadelphia company was given credit for its invention describing: "A small, solid [cake] of the ice cream is enveloped in a thin sheet of pie crust and then dipped into boiling lard or butter to cook the outside to a crisp. Served immediately, the ice cream is found to be as solidly frozen as it was first prepared." A third claim, beginning in the 1960s proposes that: fried ice cream was invented by Japanese🇯🇵 tempura restaurants.