Source: Taylor Leach, AGWEB, 7/1/21


As summer heats up across the country, producers and consumers are cooling off by celebrating National Ice Cream Month this July. While vanilla remains America’s most popular flavor, the first recorded recipe, written in the 1660s, called for cream, sugar, orange flower water and ambergris, also known as whale vomit. Yum! According to Gastropod, a podcast about food science and history, the first known recipe for ice cream was written by English noblewoman, Lady Anne Fanshawe.

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