Posted on 07/23/2017 7:52:12 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
In North America, the most common use of vanilla flavoring is for ice cream and many people consider vanilla to be the ‘default’ flavor.(recipe at link).
Like with cherry trees and Washington, it seems some stretching of the truth is applied to our country’s third President concerning vanilla ice cream. His love of vanilla ice cream, most likely discovered during his time in France, lead to a belief that he brought the recipe to the United States.
However, evidence exists supporting colonists made ice cream before Jefferson’s recipe surfaced.
By the time he was elected President, Jefferson’s fondness for the frozen dessert became evident. According to Montecello.org, the dish was reported by visitors served several times during his presidency. Jefferson produced a handwritten copy of a vanilla ice cream recipe in the 1780s, which is now housed at the Library of Congress. The Thomas Jefferson ice cream is also available at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.
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Well maybe my wife will let me have a guilt free bowl today.
Baskin-Robbins, here I come!
:-)
Vanilla ice cream with strawberries in that sugary sauce is my favorite.
Like we need TWO “National Ice Cream Days”? I thought last Sunday was officially “National Ice Cream Day”, proclaimed by Ronaldus Maximum, IIRC.
As far as I’m concerned, any day that ends in “Y” is a good day for Ice Cream!
And just when is Licorice Ice Cream Day, Huh???
Vanilla is sooo racist.
“Gibs me dat ‘nilla!
I see that the French were excluded from the movie Dunkirk.
And now they’ve been omitted from National (French) Vanilla Day.
Who needs the French anyways?
Except perhaps to children and the mentally impaired?
How embarrassing!
Vanilla is the symbolic favorite of Mitch McConnell and all establishment RINOs
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