Cherry ice cream is a common
ice cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...
flavor, prepared using typical ice cream ingredients and
cherries. Various types of cherries and cherry
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
s are used. In the United States, where the flavor is especially popular, it has been
mass-produced
Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Together with job production and ba ...
since at least 1917.
Overview
Cherry ice cream is a common
ice cream
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...
flavor in the United States consisting of typical ice cream ingredients and
cherries.
Whole or sliced or chopped cherries are used, and
cherry juice
Cherry juice is a fruit juice consisting of the juice of cherries. It is consumed as a beverage and used as an ingredient in various foods, processed foods and beverages. It is also marketed as a health supplement. It is produced by hot- or co ...
or cherry juice
concentrate
A concentrate is a form of substance that has had the majority of its base component (in the case of a liquid: the solvent) removed. Typically, this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension, such as the removal of water from ...
is sometimes used as an ingredient.
Cherry extract and
cherry pit oil have also been used as ingredients.
Various cherry
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
s are used, such as
black cherries,
bing cherries and
sour cherry
''Prunus cerasus'' (sour cherry, tart cherry, or dwarf cherry) is a species of ''Prunus'' in the subgenus '' Cerasus'' ( cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia. It is closely related to the sweet cherry (''Prunus avium''), but ...
cultivars.
Maraschino cherries
A maraschino cherry ( ) is a preserved, sweetened cherry, typically made from light-colored sweet cherries such as the Royal Ann, Rainier, or Gold varieties. In their modern form, the cherries are first preserved in a brine solution usu ...
are also used.
Cherry
gelato has also been produced, and the dish can be prepared as a
soft serve
Soft serve, also known as soft ice, is a frozen dessert, similar to ice cream but softer and less dense due to air being introduced during freezing. Soft serve has been sold commercially since the late 1930s in the US.
In the US, soft serve is ...
ice cream.
Chocolate is sometimes used as an ingredient in cherry ice cream.
History
André Viard in ''
Le Cuisinier Impérial
André Viard's ''Le Cuisinier Impérial'' (Paris: J.-N. Barba, 1806) was a culinary encyclopedia that passed through at least thirty-two editions in its long career as the essential reference work for the French professional chef during the ninete ...
'', first published in 1806, gives a recipe for ''glace de cerises''.
Cherry ice cream has been produced in the United States since at least 1892.
A version of the dish created in 1932 included bitter almond extract, which is used as an
additive
Additive may refer to:
Mathematics
* Additive function, a function in number theory
* Additive map, a function that preserves the addition operation
* Additive set-functionn see Sigma additivity
* Additive category, a preadditive category with f ...
on sour cherries, and was described as providing the flavor of maraschino cherry to the sour cherries.
It has become a tradition for cherry ice cream to be served at the
International Cherry Blossom Festival
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia every spring. Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year. Th ...
in
Macon, Georgia.
Mass production
![Cherry garcia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Cherry_garcia.JPG)
Cherry ice cream has been
mass-produced
Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Together with job production and ba ...
in the United States since at least 1917.
See also
*
List of cherry dishes
This is a list of notable cherry dishes and foods that are prepared using cherries as a primary ingredient.
Cherry dishes and foods
* Black Forest gateau – a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling based on the German dessert ' ...
*
List of ice cream flavors
This is a list of notable ice cream flavors. Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are ...
*
References
External links
Old-fashioned Maraschino Cherry Ice Cream Recipe Ahundredyearsago.com.
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Flavors of ice cream
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