Ice Cream Maker

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.