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and used as an ingredient in desserts.

History

A dish called ???????o (aphrogalo) 'frothy milk' is mentioned by Galen but with no further information. One modern author calls it a "popular milk foam" and suggests that it was "possibly a forerunner of whipped cream".

The earliest clear evidence for whipped cream, often sweetened and aromatised, comes in the 16th century, under the name milk or cream snow (neve di latte, neige de lait, neige de crème). It was mentioned

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