July is National Ice Cream Month
Ice cream has been a favorite food in the United States since the 1700s. In the 1800s, an ice cream maker was invented – it allowed people to hand-crank the ice cream inside a bucket of ice, mixing the ingredients until they slowly froze.
Today, there are electric ice cream makers, and huge ice cream factories make almost a billion gallons of ice cream in the U.S. every year! However, (according to our friend Google) you can actually make ice cream without an ice cream maker (electric or otherwise), if you have a few simple ingredients plus ice, salt, and two plastic bags.
Here are some great books about making and enjoying ice cream. Yum!
The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution by Lisa Robinson
Do Lizards Eat Ice Cream?: How Animals Beat the Heat by Etta Kaner
Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliott
The Ice Cream Machine by Adam Rubin
Scream for Ice Cream (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #2) by Carolyn Keene
Ice Cream Soup (Step Into Reading) by Ann Ingalls
The Giant Ice Cream Mess (Fox Tails #3) by Tina Kügler
Friends Rock (Unicorn and Yeti #3) by Heather Ayris Burnell
Salt & Straw Ice Cream Cookbook by Tyler Malek
From Milk to Ice Cream (Start to Finish) by Stacy Taus-Bolstad
