Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — Who Invented Ice Cream? [ARTICLE]

Who Invented Ice Cream?

While it has lx en-confidently asserted for many years that “Dolly” Madisofi, wife of lly president of the United States,- invented ice cream, the truth of the matter is that this delicacy was introduced to the English aristocracy of the eighteenth century by a London confectioner named Gunther, who may or may not have been 1® inventor.