Ice Cream Maker

Around 1832, Augustus Jackson achieved fame for creating multiple ice cream recipes and pioneering a superior ice cream preparation technique and decoration. In 1843, Nancy M. (Donaldson) Johnson of Philadelphia (Born Dec 28, 1794 in New York, died April 22, 1890 in Washington, DC) received the first U.S. patent (#3254) for a small-scale hand-cranked ice cream freezer. The ice cream freezer was a pewter cylinder. Dubbed the "Queen of Ices",Victorian English culinary entrepreneur Agnes Marshall was granted a patent for an ice cream machine that could freeze a pint of ice cream in five minutes.