Ice cream cone
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Type | Pastry |
| Serving temperature | Cold, warm |
| Main ingredient(s) | Wafers |
| Variations | Waffle cone, cake cone, wafer cone, pretzel cone, sugar cone, chocolate-coated cone, double cone, vanilla cone |
| Approximate calories per serving |
23 |
An ice cream cone, poke or cornet is a dry, cone-shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, which enables ice cream to be held in the hand and eaten without a bowl or spoon. Various types of ice cream cones include waffle cones, cake cones (or wafer cones), pretzel cones, sugar cones and chocolate-coated cones.
A variety of double cone exists that allows two scoops of ice cream to be served side by side. Ice cream cones may also be made with a flat bottom instead of the pointed lower part, enabling the ice cream and "cone" to stand upright on a surface without support. These types of wafer cups are called kiddie cups, cake cups or cool cups.
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History[edit]
Edible cones were mentioned in French cooking books as early as 1825, when Julien Archambault described how one could roll a cone from "little waffles".[1] Another printed reference to an edible cone is in Mrs A. B. Marshall's Cookery Book, written in 1888 by Agnes B. Marshall (1855–1905) of England. Her recipe for "Cornet with Cream" said that "the cornets were made with almonds and baked in the oven, not pressed between irons".[2][3]
In the United States, ice cream cones were popularized in the first decade of the 20th century. On December 13, 1904, a New Yorker named Italo Marchioni received U.S. patent No. 746971 for a mold for making pastry cups to hold ice cream.[4] Marchioni claimed that he has been selling ice cream in edible pastry holders since 1896. However, Marchioni's patent was not for a cone and he lost the lawsuits that he later filed against cone manufacturers for patent infringement.
In St. Louis, Missouri during the 1904 Saint Louis Exposition, the Banner Creamery's owner George Bang was selling ice cream. Allegedly, he ran out of bowls and was given rolled-up waffles to serve it in instead. Others credit Ernest A. Hamwi, a waffle maker at the World Fair, as the first inventor.[5]
Commercial ice cream cones[edit]
The earliest cones were rolled by hand, from hot and thin wafers, but in 1912, Frederick Bruckman, an inventor from Portland, Oregon, patented a machine for rolling ice cream cones. He sold his company to Nabisco in 1928, which is still producing ice cream cones as of 2012. Independent ice-cream providers such as Ben & Jerry's make their own cones.
The Joy Ice Cream Cone Company, located in Hermitage, PA, was founded in 1918 and began to mass-produce baked ice cream cones to sell to restaurants, as well as the everyday consumer. The company handles 1.5 billion ice cream cones a year. It is said that the company is the largest ice cream cone maker in the world as of 2009.[6]
Pre-filled cones[edit]
In 1928, J.T. "Stubby" Parker of Fort Worth, Texas created an ice cream cone that could be stored in a grocer's freezer, with the cone and the ice cream frozen together as one item.[7] He formed The Drumstick Company in 1931 to market the product, and in 1991 the company was purchased by Nestle. As of October 2012, Nestle sells eight variations of the original drumstick in a variety of flavors.[8]
In 1959, Spica, an Italian ice cream manufacturer based in Naples, invented a process whereby the inside of the waffle cone was insulated from the ice cream by a layer of oil, sugar and chocolate. Spica registered the name Cornetto in 1960. Initial sales were poor, but in 1976 Unilever bought out Spica and began a mass-marketing campaign throughout Europe. Cornetto is now one of the most popular ice creams in the world.
In 1979, a patent for a new packaging design by David Wienstien led to easier transportation of commercial ice cream cones. Wienstien's design enabled the ice cream cone to be wrapped in a wax paper package. This made the cones more sanitary while also preventing the paper wrapper from falling off during transportation, or from becoming stuck to the cone.[9]
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ Julien Archambault, Le Cuisinier économe ou Élémens nouveaux de cuisine, de pâtisserie et d'office, Librairie du commerce, Paris, 1825, page 346.
- ^ Stradley, Linda. "History of Ice Cream Cone". What's Cooking America. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ Weir, Robert. "An 1807 Ice Cream Cone: Discovery and Evidence". Historic Food. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ "United States Patent and Trademark Office". Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ "Ice cream". Encyclopedia of New Jersey. 2004.
- ^ Mans, Jack (1). "Labler is a Sweet Solution for Ice Cream Cone Maker". Packaging Digest 46 (6): 38–41. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Nestle Drumbstick". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Nestle Drumbstick". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "The United States Patent and Trademark Ofice". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
