HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ICE CREAM CONE!
The next time you see
someone licking a cool, deli
cious mound of ico cream
cuddled in a crunchy cone,
you might give a aigh for
those departed souls who
lived before they yummy,
tummy-tempting treat was
invented.
The ice cream cone cele
brates its 70th birthday this
year. For it was in 1904 that
Atnerica, which had already
given the world the telephone,
the airplane, the cotton gin
and the loganberry, came up
with the ice cream cone.
It happened, most accounts
agree, at the St. Louis
World's Fair. Thereafter, de
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toils vary. On* voraion ha* a
nameless conceaalonaira
hawking a flat, awcet cake
which he baked on a griddle
before his customers' eyes.
’ During a lull, he rolled one of
his stilbwarm cakes into a
cornucopia shape. But what
could be put in the corn
ucopia? The vendor in the
next stall was selling ice
cream. He leaned over and
begged a dollop for the open
end of his creation and the
ice cream cone was born.
Unfortunately, according to
this story, neither man saw
that it was a great day in
gastronomic history. But two
other Fair employees were
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BIRTHPLACE OF THE ICE CREAM CONE....A view of
the St. Louis fair in 1904.
taken with the idea After the
fair closed they went to
Cincinnati where they began
to experiment with baking
cones They used a small
hand oven and turned out
hand-rolled sweet sugar cones
and the pressed or molded
type. Their products found a
ready market and before long
cones appeared in other cities
Automation got into the
act in 1910 That was when
Frederick A Bruckmann of
Portland, Oregon, invented a
machine that turned out 3,000
cones an hour He sold ma
chine rights and territories to
businessmen in vanous parts
of the country and a new
industry was launched
Nabisco, Inc. entered the
cone business in 1928 by
buying the McLaren Con
solidated Cone Corporation
Founded by Alexander
McLaren, who early had ob
tained the rights to the
Bruckmann machine for cer
tain eastern territories, the
company had a number of
plants around the country.
One of the main features of
the McLaren cones was the
nesting nng of extra thick
ness around the outside of the
cone near the top This per
mitted the cones to be packed
KING CONE...Woman em
ployee packs 'em in.
FOR PALACE OR PALATE
...Ice cream cones can tempt
a lad to dream.
one inside the other for ship
ment, without the disastrous
percentage of breakage which
plagued the industry in its
early years.
Nabisco manufactures
three basic types of cones;
waffle cups, which come
in assorted colors and fla
vors, waffle cones and sugar
cones. One Nabisco plant,
for example, bakes over 300
million cones a year.
The biggest switch in
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 10.1974
talcs hat been from regular
size conet to be ditpcnted
in stores to cups for home
use. Mom’s kitchen it be
coming a do-it-yourself ice
cream parlor.
Probably nobody knows the
exact date on which to say
"Happy Birthday” to the ice
cream cone, but wittingly or
not. millions of cones will be
raised to the lips in celebra
tion this year.
Since the most recent fig
ure shows the United States
consuming 786 million gallons
of ice cream annually, what if
it all were dispensed in single
dip cones? It would come to
about 194 cones eaten each
year by every man, woman
and child Of course, not all
ice cream is consumed this
way, but isn't it a delicious
thought in this cone-prone
world?
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