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Ice Cream Through Time From Mount Vernon to Good Humor
George Washington kept two ice cream pots at Mount Vernon and Dolley Madison served it at the White House. Servants used ice and salt to freeze the mixture, a method evolved today with cranks. Ernest Hamwi likely created the cone at the 1904 World’s Fair. Harry Burt Jr. popularized the ice cream bar in 1920 with traveling carts.
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