15/05/2024
France is considered the birthplace of the dessert, but some facts dispute this statement: there is a version that glace was first prepared in Austria, but the drink did not gain popularity there. It is unknown when such a drink was first prepared and no one knows what its original recipe was. For example, there are opinions that originally ice was coffee with liqueur and an ice cube, and that ice was coffee with egg yolk.
There is a legend about the appearance of this drink. A young Austrian guy ran into a cafe, late for a meeting. There he ordered a cappuccino, but the bartender making the drinks did not have milk. Without thinking twice, he replaced it with ice cream. The client liked the iced coffee so much that from that day on he began ordering only it. After which the bartender introduced a cold coffee drink and this preparation technology to the menu.