Ice Cream- America\'s favorite dessert

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Whether it is an ice cream cone or the iced confection in a dishtopped with hot fudge or butterscotch, a banana split with all thetrimmings, from cherries to whipped cream - ice cream is the piecede resistance.

Not only are ice cream parlors busy, residents purchase quarts ofice cream at food markets and make their own sundaes, sodas, shakesand cones.

Ice cream socials first made the American scene in the late 1800s(primarily for fundraisers) when the ice cream was hand cranked andwas usually vanilla. Today's ice cream socials are also fundraiserswith churches and organization featuring these events on an annualbasis.

The Fenton United Methodist
Mens group hosts such an event during the annual Art at the Center,which is sponsored by the Fenton Kiwanis Club. Ice cream is servedon top of cake or baking powder biscuits topped with strawberries.

A treat each year at the Fenton & Mundy Township PioneerAssociation's annual Pioneer Days at the Podunk House and Museumgrounds located at

Main and North Long Lake roads is homemade, hand-cranked ice creamcreated by association member Victor Moore. He distributes freesamples of the creamy, frozen custard.

The old, crank-type freezer was invented by Nancy Johnson, a NewEngland woman, who established this basic method in 1846. She didnot patent the invention, however, William G. Young patented theJohnson Patent Ice-Cream Freezer in 1848. Jacob Fussell inBaltimore established the first large-scale commercial ice creamplant.

Making hand-cranked ice cream was a family enterprise for many.Everyone in the family would take a turn cranking. Sometimes, freshstrawberries or peaches would be added to the ice cream for addedflavor. Later, the electric ice cream machine came on the market,improving on the time and effort of making homemade ice cream.

With the introduction of mechanical refrigeration, this treatbecame both distributable and profitable. The ice cream shop orsoda fountain has since become an icon of American culture, as weall scream for ice cream.

Why not?

July is National Ice Cream Month.