National Ice Cream Day
President Ronald Reagan declared July 20, to be National Ice Cream Day and July to be National Ice Cream month.
** Did you know that two people, a Charles E. Menches and Abe Doumar, both claim to have invented the ice cream cone in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition fair in St. Louis, Missouri?
The origins of ice cream can be traced back to at least the 4th century B.C. Early references include the Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 37-68) who ordered ice to be brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings, and King Tang (A.D. 618-97) of Shang, China who had a method of creating ice and milk concoctions. Ice cream was likely brought from China back to Europe. Over time, recipes for ices, sherbets, and milk ices evolved and served in the fashionable Italian and French royal courts.
After the dessert was imported to the United States, it was served by several famous Americans. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson served it to their guests. In 1700, Governor Bladen of Maryland was recorded as having served it to his guests. In 1774, a London caterer named Philip Lenzi announced in a New York newspaper that he would be offering for sale various confections, including ice cream. Dolly Madison served it in 1812.
First Ice Cream Parlor In America – Origins Of English Name
The first ice cream parlor in America opened in New York City in 1776. American colonists were the first to use the term “ice cream”. The name came from the phrase “iced cream” that was similar to “iced tea”. The name was later abbreviated to “ice cream” the name we know today.
Methods and Technology
Whoever invented the method of using ice mixed with salt to lower and control the temperature of ice cream ingredients during its making provided a major breakthrough in ice cream technology. Also important was the invention of the wooden bucket freezer with rotary paddles improved ice cream’s manufacture.
Augustus Jackson, a confectioner from Philadelphia, created new recipes for making ice cream in 1832.
Nancy Johnson and William Young – Hand-Cranked Freezers
In 1846, Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked freezer that established the basic method of making ice cream still used today. William Young patented the similar “Johnson Patent Ice-Cream Freezer” in 1848.
Jacob Fussell – Commercial Production
In 1851, Jacob Fussell in Baltimore established the first large-scale commercial ice cream plant. Alfred Cralle patented an ice cream mold and scooper used to serve on February 2 1897.
Mechanical Refrigeration
The treat became both distributable and profitable with the introduction of mechanical refrigeration. The ice cream shop or soda fountain has since become an icon of American culture.
Around 1926, the first commercially successful continuous process freezer for ice cream was invented by Clarence Vogt.
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History of Ice Cream Cones
The walk-away edible cone made its American debut at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.
Ice cream cone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the cone itself. For the confection commonly referred to as an “ice cream cone”, see Ice cream. For the breakfast cereal, see Ice Cream Cones (cereal).
A stack of sugar ice-cream cones
An ice cream cone, poke or cornet is a dry, cone-shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, allowing ice cream to be eaten without a bowl or spoon. Various types of ice-cream cones include waffle cones, cake cones (or wafer cones), pretzel cones, and sugar cones.
Edible cones have been mentioned in French cooking books as early as 1825, Julien Archambault describes a cone where one can roll “little waffles”.[1] Another printed reference to an edible cone is in Mrs A. B. Marshall’s Cookery Book, written in 1888 by Agnes B. Marshall (1855–1905) of England. Her recipe for “Cornet with Cream” says that – “the cornets were made with almonds and baked in the oven, not pressed between irons”. influential innovator who published two recipe books and ran a school of cookery.
In the United States, ice-cream cones were popularized in the first decade of the 20th century. On December 13, 1903, a New Yorker named Italo Marchiony received U.S. patent No. 746971 for a mold for making pastry cups to hold ice cream; he claimed that he has been selling ice cream in edible pastry holders since 1896. Contrary to popular belief, his patent was not for a cone and he lost the lawsuits that he filed against cone manufacturers for patent infringement.
According to one legend, a Syrian pastry maker, Ernest Hamwian, who was selling zalabia, a crisp pastry cooked in a hot waffle-patterned press came to the aid of a neighboring ice cream vendor (perhaps Arnold Fornachou or Charles Menches) who had run out of dishes; Hamwi rolled a warm zalabia into a cone that could hold ice cream. However, numerous vendors sold pastries at the World’s Fair, and several of them claimed to have invented the ice-cream cone, citing a variety of inspirations. Hamwi’s story is sourced from a letter he wrote in 1928 to the Ice Cream Trade Journal, long after he had established the Cornucopia Waffle Company (later the Missouri Cone Company). Nationally, by that time, the ice-cream cone industry was producing some 250 million cones a year.
The owners of Doumar’s Cones and BBQ in Norfolk, Virginia claim that their uncle, Abe Doumar, also a Syrian, sold the first ice-cream cones at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Other World’s Fair vendors who claimed to have invented the cone include Nick and Albert Kabbaz, David Avayou, Charles and Frank Menches, and Saba Najjar. Doumar’s Cones and BBQ is still running today.
The first cones were rolled by hand but, in 1912, Frederick Bruckman, an inventor from Portland, Oregon, patented a machine for rolling ice-cream cones. He sold his company to Nabisco in 1928. Nabisco is still producing ice-cream cones, as it has been since 1928. Independent ice-cream providers such as Ben & Jerry’s make their own ice-cream cones.
The idea of selling a frozen ice-cream cone – so that the cone and the ice-cream could be one item, storable in a freezer – had long been a dream of ice-cream makers, but it wasn’t until 1928 when J.T. “Stubby” Parker of Fort Worth, Texas created an ice cream cone that could be stored in a grocer’s freezer. To market it, he formed The Drumstick Company in 1931. In 1991, The Drumstick Company was purchased by Nestle. In 1959, Spica, an Italian ice-cream manufacturer based in Naples invented a process, whereby the inside of the waffle cone was insulated from the ice-cream by a layer of oil, sugar and chocolate. Spica registered the name Cornetto in 1960. Initial sales were poor, but in 1976 Unilever bought out Spica and began a mass-marketing campaign throughout Europe. It is now one of the most popular ice creams in the world.
Some brands produce something very similar to the traditional ice-cream cone, but with a flat bottom, which enables it to stand upright without danger of falling. These types of wafer cups are called “kiddie cups”, “cake cones”, or “cool cups”.
A variety of cone exists that allows two scoops of ice cream to be served side by side, instead of the usual straight up order.[4] The side-by-side variety has been the standard “double-header” in Australia for many decades, the ‘two-up’ variety is a relatively recent innovation in Gelato shops mostly. The side-by-side variety in the footnoted illustration is an inferior version that tends to fracture easily at the base of each ‘cup’, the Australian variety has the base of the cone flared out more to buttress the two separate cups.
A premium variety of cones has the top covered in solid chocolate sauce.
Soft Ice Cream
British chemists discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream creating soft ice cream.
Eskimo Pie
The idea for the Eskimo Pie bar was created by Chris Nelson, a ice cream shop owner from Onawa, Iowa. He thought up the idea in the spring of 1920, after he saw a young customer called Douglas Ressenden having difficulty choosing between ordering an ice cream sandwich and a chocolate bar. Nelson created the solution, a chocolate covered ice cream bar. The first Eskimo Pie chocolate covered ice cream bar on a stick was created in 1934.
Originally Eskimo Pie was called the “I-Scream-Bar”. Between 1988 and 1991, Eskimo Pie introduced an aspartame sweetened, chocolate covered, frozen dairy dessert bar called the Eskimo Pie No Sugar Added Reduced Fat Ice Cream Bar.
Haagen-Dazs
Reuben Mattus invented Haagen-Dazs in 1960, he choose the name because it sounded Danish.
DoveBar
The DoveBar was invented by Leo Stefanos.
Good Humor Ice Cream Bar
In 1920, Harry Burt invented the Good Humor Ice Cream Bar and patented it in 1923. Burt sold his Good Humor bars from a fleet of white trucks equipped with bells and uniformed
