This commercial is a wonderful blast from the past for any ice cream enthusiast!
Monday, December 30, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
The Sweetest Of All Wedding Favors
You have waited for this all your life - getting married to the man of your dreams. You want your guests to enjoy the moment as you are taking the plunge - a mixed feeling of nerve-wracking excitement and happiness. You have arranged everything according to perfection and now, you're thinking of a memorable wedding favor to hand out to your guests. You want something unique and as exceptional as your love for your husband that has blossomed through time. Well, here's a good advice for you. Why not try something edible and sweet? Give out a delicious personalized wedding candy to each of your visitors as a wedding favor.
The Sweet Treat
Yes, you could make edible sweets as a wedding favor! In fact, wedding candy is something that most of your guests will look forward to bring home after the wedding or savor along the way as they chat about what a good time they had.
It can be chocolates, candies, cookies, cakes, brownies or other luscious treats. Unlike other wedding favors that you would probably throw away, these sweets would bring much delight to every eater.
It's All in the Wrapping
Make common candies look special by wrapping them in a presentable way. You could go and buy less expensive candy and still look like they've been from the whimsical Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, a famous signature candy brand, or you can have a special patisserie uniquely done for you.
Place these sweets in an organza square, tie the ends with a ribbon as same as the color of your motif, and add some paper flowers or thank you wedding cards. Or, you can get some printed plastic or paper and put the candies shaped as a mini bag in which the guests can carry; enjoying it on their way home.
Fill It Up!
Add up fillers for your wedding candy pack with other sweets. You can put in a special pastry that you baked with love or some roasted almonds that go well with the chocolates. You can put in mini chocolate chip cookies with M&Ms as bits or some peanut and chocolate blend cookies. It's a wedding favor that would turn out to be extremely favorable!
Pick a local delicacy, family favorite or buy different kinds of desserts and sweets and fill your favor bags with an assortment. Everyone will love the surprise in the variety. Be careful-they might want to take home some more!
With all these choices, you may find out that a wedding candy or any other sweet alternative may be the best choice as your wedding favor. So what are you waiting for? Get ready to bake or buy (if you don't have the time) and to indulge yourself in almonds, chocolates, candies, sweetened fruits, cakes and cookies. Prepare yourself the sweetest wedding favor you can share to your guests!
Kim Maureen Medel-Datumanong is a freelance writer on many lifestyle topics including weddings. She prides herself on knowing where to find the most stylish, unique selection of wedding candy.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
About Us!
My father, Mr. Naidu, started as an ice cream vendor on the streets of Dixon, California, 30 years ago. We all grew up selling ice cream on the streets of Dixon. As soon as we got our driver’s license, our father gave us an ice cream truck to teach us responsibility and the value of a hard earned dollar. Even till this day, we are known as THE ICE CREAM family in Dixon. I remember throwing candies out from the trucks at the Dixon Mayfair Parade. Good times!
Today our pride and joy is this wholesale novelty warehouse, which is operated by husband, Ravi, my two son’s, Shivam and Avineet, and me, Julz. We are open seven days a week from 8am to 1pm, weather permitting. Our hours change for the winter months. But whether hot or cold, ice cream is a treat that everyone loves to eat. Stop by and check us out!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Who Invented Ice Cream?
Unlike pottery, arrow heads and metal tools, traces of ancient ice creams are not really something that archaeologists can unravel. The ice cream history is therefore elusive and not very well known. People living in climates where ice and snow formed naturally are believed to have enjoyed a form of sorbet since prehistoric time by flavouring snow with fruit, berries and honey. This was probably especially popular in warm regions with high mountains, since snow could be gathered from the high altitudes and brought down to regions where it provided much sought after relief from the heat.
Even though ice cream itself leaves no visible mark in ancient history, items and buildings used for its creation can. Icehouses are for instance known to have existed as early as 2,000 years B.C. in Mesopotamia. Wealthy Mesopotamians had them built along the River Euphrates and used them to store food. We also know from historical sources that several Egyptian pharaohs ordered ice to be shipped to them in the hot and sunny regions in which they lived.
Once of the earliest known instances of true sorbet - not only ice and ice houses - are the honey and fruit flavoured snow cones that you could buy in Athenian markets during the 5th century BC. Later on, the Romans adopted a lot of Greek traditions, ice cream eating included. The Roman emperor Nero who reigned from 54 to 68 AD did for instance have ice transported to Rome from the mountains and mixed with fruit and toppings.
In 400 B.C. the Persians invented a cool pudding made from vermicelli and rosewater. This chilled treat tastes a bit like a blend of sorbet and rice pudding, and was often mixed with fruits and saffron. Ice was quite readily available to wealthy Persians since they owned so called yakhchals; naturally cooled refrigerators in which ice collected from the mountains could be stored for longer periods of time.
The Arabs play an important role in the history of ice cream since they began using sugar and syrup instead of honey. In the 10th century B.C., sweet ice cream flavoured with fruits and nuts could be purchased in all major Arab cities. The Arabs also began adding milk to the ice-cream, making it more similar to the type of diary based ice-cream that is most widespread today.
It has been hard to determine when the Chinese began enjoy Chinese ice cream, but the first type of Chinese ice cream is believed to have been flavoured with sugar and sold during the warm summer season. Most historians agree that the upper class enjoyed ice-creamed flavoured with fruit juices during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 B.C.) According to "History of food" by Toussaint-Samat the Chinese may even have created a special ice-cream creation method earlier than the Song Dynasty. This method involved pouring snow and saltpetre over containers filled with syrup. Salt will lower the freezing point of water to subzero. Diary products are still rare in Chinese food, but according to legend Mongols introduced the custom of drinking milk to the Chinese during the Yuan Dynasty and this eventually led to the invention of milky ice-cream.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Types of Ice Cream Kids Love!
Do you remember running around outside with friends when you were a kid? If the weather was warm, there's an excellent chance you had many days like this. Well, things haven't changed very much. Kids sill run around with their friends outside in the warm weather. While they're most likely having a great time, they're also getting hot and sweaty doing it. What does this lead to? The need for every kid's favourite snack - cold treats.
There are many ice cream types these days. One of them is the Paddle Pop. Paddle Pops have been around for a long time - since 1953. They were created by a man named Ronald Street. So, next time you eat a Paddle Pop, thank Ronald Street. Paddle Pops were popular in Australia for several decades. That popularity finally began to grow in 2000, when Paddle Pops began to reach places as far off as China, the British Isles, Malaysia and India. Based on their extraordinary taste, it's most likely only a matter of time before Paddle Pops became well known all over the world. It's estimated that 97 million people eat at least one Paddle Pop in a year. There are currently over 100 flavours.
Another one of the more popular kids desserts are Icy Poles. Icy Poles were actually discovered by accident. In 1905, an 11-year-old boy in San Francisco, California left soda water powder and water outside. There was a stick in its middle. Overnight, the temperature reached below freezing and froze the soda water powder. When he came outside the next morning, he discovered this new concoction and ran it under hot water. Using the stick as a handle, he removed the soda water and began to eat it. From then on, Icy Poles were born. Icy Pops are eaten all over the world and go by different names based on the country. Here's a fun side note: in 1997, the largest Icy Pole ever was created and it was 21 feet high.
We can't have an article about ice cream types without mentioning Cornetto or Drumsticks. For many years, people were trying to figure out how to eat frozen ice cream cones. The problem was that they kept melting. Finally, they figured out to use oil, sugar and chocolate to insulate the ice cream. Cornetto and Drumstick comes in many flavours, including strawberry, mint chocolate, nut, lemon, and whippy.
If these options don't sound interesting enough to you, you can also try other popular ice cream snacks, such as an Ice Cream Sandwich, a Chipwich Sandwich, or a Sundae Cone. While they all have their benefits, it's always most fun to mix it up and try them all.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Maple Taffy on Snow
Sometimes referred to as "sugar on snow" in the United States, "maple taffee" in the English-speaking regions of Canada, and "tire d'érable" in the French-speaking ones, maple taffy is a confection made from maple sap. It is integral in the traditional culture of Quebec, where 80% of the whole world's maple syrup is produced, and also New England. In both places, maple taffy is poured onto the snow, then lifted with a small wooden stick or a metal dinner fork. In New England, the event is called "sugar on snow party" and the confection is served traditionally with sour dill pickles, coffee, and yeast-risen donuts, the former two serving to counter the sweetness of the candy.
Maple taffy is made by boiling maple syrup until it reaches about 234 ºF in temperature, as measured by a candy thermometer. It cannot be done for longer lest the syrup turns into maple butter or maple sugar. The higher than temperature during the boiling process, the thicker the resulting candies will be. The liquid, which must have thickened in the boiling process, may be kept hot over very low heat or placed in a pan of hot water. It should not be stirred, however, as it will only form grainy crystals. It is then poured in its molten state into clean snow whose cold temperature would cause it rapidly thicken. Take note though that if instead of hardening, the syrup runs when poured into the snow, it means you have not allowed it to boil long enough to create the maple taffy. If it has sufficiently hardened in the snow, it can already be picked up to be eaten.
Maple taffy is popularly eaten soft so it is often served fresh, and prepared and eaten alongside maple syrup processing in sugarhouses. In Manitoba, the Canadian province, Manitoba maple syrup from the Manitoba maple tree (or box elder) is used, yielding generally darker and mustier candies.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
How to Make Shimmering, Frosted Cookies with Sweet Dani B and Jelly Belly
Join Sweet Dani B to learn how to create beautiful holiday cookies with sparkling Jelly Belly jelly beans from the Jewel Collection. Create gifts, ornaments and sweet memories with these stunning designs.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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