Ice cream
...s mainly just served at royal events. In the 1700’s this recipe came to the U.S. It was served by several famous Americans including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Dolly Madison. Ice cream made its first advertisement in America in 1777 in the New York Gazette. Nevertheless, ice cream still remained a rare and expensive treat. In the 16, 17, and 18 hundreds ice cream needed an enormous effort to make. It took about 40 minutes of shaking and stirring of two large bowls to make it. This problem was helped when Nancy Johnson invented the hand-crank ice cream maker in 1847. In 1851, Jacob Fussell made ice cream an industry. This former milk dealer made a factory that utilized icehouses and a larger version of Johnson’s hand-crank machine. By the civil war, he had ice cream plants in Maryland, Boston, New York, and Washington. In 1874 America opened its first soda fountain shop. These shops featured ice cream sodas. Around 1890, however, these drinks were prohibited on Sunday in some parts of the United States because it was considered a sin to eat such rich ice cream sodas. In response to this, the ice cream merchants left out the soda, making it just ice cream and syrup and naming it a Sunday. This is how the term “ice cream sundae” got its name. In 1896, the first cone was invented. ITAL-YO MARKY-ONY created the first ice cream cone. He sold his cones from a pushcart in New York. He created the first waffle mold to make the cones. At St. Louis’ World’s fair in 1904, there were over 50 ice cream stands and more than one form of ice cream cone. The cone became popu...