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ICE CREAM INFO (continued) ● In the 13th century when explorer Marco Polo returned to his native Italy from his travels in the Far East, he brought home a recipe very similar to our sherbet of today. “Cream Ice” was on the table of England’s King Charles I during the early 1600s. A Parisian café first offered ice cream to the public around 1600. ● Ice cream’s first official mention in North America was in a letter from a guest of the governor of Maryland. The New York Gazette featured a confectioner’s advertisement for ice cream in 1777 informing readers that the treat was available “almost every day.” President George Washington was a great lover of ice cream, with records indicating that the chief executive spent $200 on ice cream during the summer of 1790. His personal effects at the time of his death included two pewter ice cream pots. James Madison was another president who was fond of the treat, having it served at his Inaugural Ball in 1813. ● America’s first patent for an ice cream cone was issued in 1903 to Italo Marchiony, an Italian immigrant who invented his cone in New York City. The following year the St. Louis World’s Fair featured a vendor selling crisp wafﬂe pastries, who just happened to have his booth next to an ice cream merchant. When the ice cream booth ran out of dishes, the pasty vendor stepped in, rolling his wafﬂes into cone shapes. The rest, as they say, is history. Today’s machines are capable of producing about 150,000 cones every day. ● There are a lot of items that are called ice cream, so what’s the difference? Under federal law, ice cream must contain at least 10% milkfat and weigh a minimum of 4.5 lbs. per gallon. “French” ice cream contains that 10% as well as at least 1.4% egg yolk solids.

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● On July 15, 1888, the Bandai volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Honshu, killing hundreds and burying many nearby villages in ash. The eruption left an 8,000-foot crater in the earth. In the aftermath, the ash from Bandai dimmed the sun slightly worldwide for months. ● On July 21, 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway, author of such novels as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea," is born in Oak Park, Ill. The influential American literary icon became known for his straightforward prose and use of understatement. ● On July 17, 1920, Nils Bohlin, the Swedish engineer and inventor responsible for the three-point lap-andshoulder seatbelt, is born. Before 1959, only two-point lap belts were available in automobiles, and for the most part, the only people who regularly buckled up were race-car drivers. ● On July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, N.M. The destructive power was the equivalent of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. The original $6,000 budget for the Manhattan Project ballooned to a total cost of $2 billion. ● On July 19, 1956, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces that the United States is withdrawing its offer of financial aid to Egypt to help with the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River. The Soviet Union rushed to Egypt's aid, and the Aswan Dam officially opened in 1964. ● On July 18, 1969, shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours. ● On July 20, 1973, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee dies in Los Angeles at age 32 from a brain edema possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller. His film, "Enter the Dragon," was released in the United States one month after his death.

Welcome to Goose Tips! The main reason I love teachng kids how to cook is that it’s possible to include every single child, regardless of age or abilities. Since cooking is an activity that you can break down into dozens of tasks, each child can tke on easy or challenging ones. If you’re new to teaching kids, show them the task first and then let them do it on their own. Only step in to help if they are truly struggling. Aftr a few cooking sessions together, you’ll have your own in-house chefs! Ruby and I often make homemade brownies... You’ll need: Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups Margarine 4 Eggs 2 cups Sugar 1 1/2 cups Flour 2 tsp. Vanilla 3/4 cup Cocoa 2 cups Nuts (optional) Preheat oven to 350 Melt butter and let your little one sprinkle in the cocoa, mix. Stir in sugar and blend in eggs, one at a time, add vanilla. Now, Ruby sifts in the flour and adds the nuts. Mix well and bake in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan for 30 minutes in preheated oven. Let cool on rack for 20 to 30 minutes. And when you do decide to dine out, gather around our table at The Goose. Remember, every Friday is Family Game Night, each week we’re serving up a different wild game! This week’s feature is ELK! Hungry for more? Find this, and other great tips on our Facebook page. The Wounded Goose, we have a lot of competition, but our food doesn’t. ---Kat Brabham, owner

ICE CREAM INFO (continued) ● The world’s first Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Illinois in 1940, and within 15 years there were 2,600 locations. Estevan, Saskatchewan became home to the first Canadian store in 1953. Canada is also the site of the world’s business Dairy Queen, in Moncton, New Brunswick. Dairy Queen’s success is the result of developing the first formula for soft-serve ice cream, accomplished by John Fremont McCullough in 1938. ● Friends since junior high school on Long Island, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have an enduring friendship. It was Jerry’s ambition to enter med school, but he couldn’t seem to get accepted into any. Ben was admitted to several colleges, but dropped out of all of them. The pair plunked down $5 to purchase a correspondence course on ice cream making from Penn State University. Between the two of them, they had $8,000 in savings, and with the addition of a $4,000 bank loan, they set out on a new business venture. They leased a vacant gas station in Burlington, Vermont, and opened their ice cream parlor in 1978. An old spool and bobbin mill was their next location, where they first began packing their ice cream in pints. Franchises began in 1981, and can now be found in 26 countries around the world. They achieved recognition in 1983 when Ben and Jerry’s ice cream was used to put together the world’s largest ice cream sundae, one weighing 27,102 lbs. (12,293 kg). ● The first Coldstone Creamery opened its doors in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona. Just fifteen years later, the company marked the opening of its 500th store, and four years later there were more than 2,700 locations worldwide. They now operate in 20 countries, including Egypt, Brazil, Dubai, and Cyprus. In Japan, it’s ranked as the #1 place to work.

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● It was actor-turned-politico Arnold Schwarzenegger who made the following sage observation: "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." ● Southern California has more cars than India has cows. If cows are sacred in India, what does that say about how Californians feel about their automobiles? ● If you're like an average person, the time you spend blinking in one day adds up to about 30 minutes of shuteye. ● A New Yorker named Ashrita Furman holds the world record for the most world records: He has set 462 of them and currently holds 160. Among his exploits are the longest yodel (more than 26 hours); the longest distance traveled via acrobatic somersaults (12 miles, 390 yards); jumping up steps on a pogo stick (1,899 steps in 57 minutes, 51 seconds); the fastest time skipping through a marathon (5 hours, 55 minutes, 13 seconds); running the fastest mile with a milk bottle balanced on his head (7 minutes, 47 seconds); creating the largest popcorn sculpture (20 feet, 10 inches tall); underwater hula hooping (2 minutes, 38 seconds); the most candles burning simultaneously on a cake (48,523); the longest rally while playing table tennis with an egg (14 hits); and the fastest time for orange peeling and eating (3 oranges in 1 minute, 9.72 seconds). ● In the Middle Ages, chicken soup wasn't just comfort food for those suffering from a cold; at the time, it was considered to be an aphrodisiac. ● Scientists at NASA are working on developing a kind of space broom. The device will use a laser to sweep debris out of the way of the International Space Station. Thought for the Day: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -- H.G. Wells

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ICE CREAM INFO (continued) ● Reuben Mattus was a Polish-born New York businessman who created the Haagen Dazs ice cream formula in 1959. He devised the Danish-sounding name of the product at his kitchen table, reciting nonsensical words aloud until he found a unique and original name he liked. He wanted it to sound Danish as a tribute to Denmark’s admirable treatment of Jews during World War II. ● Brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins each owned ice cream parlors in Glendale, California, and following their service in World War II, made the decision to merge their two businesses. Baskin and Robbins was born in 1945 and has grown to more than 6,700 locations around the world. It was their idea that there should be a different flavor for every day of the month and devised their “31 flavors” slogan from this concept. Since 1945, the company has introduced more than 1,000 assorted flavors. The career of Sean “Diddy” Combs got its start in a Baskin-Robbins commercial when he was just two years old. ● Although thousands of creative flavors have been introduced by various vendors over the years, vanilla still takes the prize as the most popular flavor in America, followed closely by chocolate chip mint and cookies-and-cream.

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ALL ABOUT BABY FOOD It seems there’s an observance of some kind for nearly everyone. The third week of July is National Baby Food Week, so this week Tidbits is looking into the history of this common item. ● Swiss pharmacist Henri Nestlé is credited as the inventor of the first artificial infant food in 1867. At the request of a friend whose infant could not nurse naturally or digest fresh cow’s milk, Nestlé created a mixture of malted wheat and sweetened condensed milk. He was soon selling 500,000 boxes of Nestlé’s Milk Food annually. By the late 1880s, there were several brands for parents to choose from, mostly grain mixtures that were to be mixed with milk. ● A small canning company opened in rural Michigan in 1901, packaging peas, beans, and fruits. The Fremont Canning Company was owned and operated by the Frank Gerber family. After years of effort, by 1917, the company finally reached annual sales exceeding $1 million. In 1927, Frank’s son Daniel was the assistant manager of the company and father to a new baby daughter. When the family pediatrician advised Daniel and his wife Dorothy to cook, mash, and strain solid foods for baby Sally, Dorothy suggested that the canning company look into producing foods for babies. In 1928, the company, the company introduced strained peas, prunes, carrots, and spinach. Close to 600,000 cans were sold the first year.

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