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Lucy Biography Ice Cream Maker Daily Kitchen Schedule List of Enslaved, 1799
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Instructions:
Read and analyze the source by completing the Analysis Routine below. When you have finished, select the BACK TO KITCHEN button to explore the other sources provided.

This ice cream maker is like the ten that the Washington family owned in 1799. They bought their first in 1784. Their ice cream maker was valued at $3.00 in 1799. There is an inner container with a lid made out of tin or pewter with a larger wooden container around it. Sweet ingredients would go inside the metal container. Cold and salty ingredients would go in between the two containers. The lid was used to keep the sweet ingredients inside and the ice and salt outside. The enslaved cook would carefully open the lid as the mixture cooled and froze and scrape the sides of the basin with a wooden spoon.

Complete the Analysis Routine

1. What does the ice cream maker look like? Does it look like it was heavy or light? Do you think it was hot or cold?

2. Read the recipe again. Does it call for an ice cream maker like this one? What does it say to use instead?

3. Using two bowls to make ice cream was very hard for an enslaved cook. How do you think this changed when the Washingtons bought the ice cream makers?

4. Do you think the Washingtons liked ice cream? What information or evidence helps you to draw your conclusion?

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