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Augustus Jackson And Ice Cream

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Augustus Jackson was born on April 16, 1808. He was a worker in the White House when he moved from his hometown in Philadelphia. In the 1820’s he was a teenager he became one of the top chefs. Then he quit and moved back to Philadelphia and he opened his own shop as a caterer and a confectioner. When working with ice cream he discovered that mixing rock salt and ice the salt will act as a neutral object that controls and lowers the temperature of the ingredients he used for his ice cream. When he made this discovery he started to sell it inin street vendors and in ice cream parlors. He found this out in 1834. Soon after the invention he was named the ‘the father of ice cream’. Although he didn’t actually invent it. Some historians say that

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