A History of American Ice Cream (pg. 51-84)

Summary: Next, wholesalers now began to emerge and the industry grew. They produced large quantities of ice cream.  New flavors of ice cream came about and children ran after street sellers to get their ice cream.   Milkshakes, sundaes and more were sold.  Jacob Fussell, a master in wholesaling, taught it to many other people  after the civil war.  Most sold it with a low butterfat content than in original recipes and so the ice cream was much fluffier, which some customers complained that it felt like they were eating air.  The most popular flavor was vanilla, but ice cream was also made with different delicious fruits that gave it taste.  Jefferson loved vanilla and it was sold at pleasure gardens.  However, all of this did not advance technology for ice cream greatly.  Wholesalers encouraged inventors to develop new products. 2 major developments were the centrifugal cream separator, which stopped the need to setting milk aside for 12 to 24 hours, and the centrifugal butterfat tester.  Molds became a fashionable thing- people made many designs.  Isaac Newton had a famous ice cream parlor.  Children's favorite thing was ice cream.  Good Humor was a famous ice cream truck.  Dairy Queen was famous for their ice cream.  Ben and Jerry's homemade was also famous and their first shop was in Vermont.
Quote: "vanilla was the top-selling flavor by an overwhelming margin"(Funderburg 59).
Reaction: I love vanilla ice cream, but i love the chocolate flavor even more.

A History of American Ice Cream (pg. 8-50)

Summary: Ice cream was a big aspect of life back then. People wanted to make profits off of ice cream.  One big thing was the pleasure gardens, which united the whole family to spend time with each other. This was a place that women were now welcomed in with the whole family, not  just men. There was entertainment and ice cream, as well as other deserts, were served. There was competition between ice cream sellers and people had to decide which ice cream was best. The presidents had parties at the White house and there was ice cream, cake, punch, almonds, fruits, and many other's served. President Jackson had a ceremony and deserts were served, which finished quickly.  Fistfights broke out because people wanted to get to president Jackson.
                 The pot freezer method was used to make ice cream in the 18th and 19th centuries.  During this, the cook had to stop turning the freezer and scrape the frozen ice off the inner wall. A new method later came out called the Hand-Cranked Freezer - which scraped the ice off the wall for you.  It was more efficient and made better tasting ice cream. The growth of the natural ice industry helped to get ice cream to much more people. Ice harvesting required a lot of man and horse power.  Bad weather in 1895 brought a famine to ice harvesters and prices raised. As technology for artificial ice advanced, more plants were made  and soon ice harvesting was forgotten. Ice cream was made as delicious as possible.
Quote:"many foods that are now known to be very nutritious were avoided.  Eating fruit was blamed for more than one cholera outbreak..."(Funderburg 27).
Reaction: I did not know that eating fruit was considered bad back then, because it is the last thing that i would think is unhealthy.  Now it is considered vital to life. Maybe it was something else causing the cholera.