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The soft, chewy cone made of sugar and flour that ice cream is served in.

When you're feeling flush, or in love, you can pay for the upgrade at Ice Cream Shoppes to the "waffle cone" or the "sugar cone."

History
Wafers in the late 1700s were being rolled into cones to have fruit desserts and whipped cream put in them.

In the 1800s, paper and metal cones were used for Ice Cream in England, France and Germany.

There were also glass dishes called "licks" in England that your Ice Cream would be served to you on by a street vendor. You would eat the Ice Cream right there on the spot, and then hand the dish back. The vendor would wash it and re-use it. It was difficult as a vendor to keep up with washing the glass dishes properly on a busy day. Their use was finally banned by the British government for health reasons in 1926.

In an 1807 painting by Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832) of a scene at Frascati cafe in Paris, a woman appears to be licking something out of a cone.

An 1820 painting by Neapolitan painter Saverio (aka Xavier) della Gatta ( - died 1830) of a seaside scene in Naples, Italy, shows an ice cream vendor eating ice cream out of cone-shaped glasses.

In 1846, Charles Elmé Francatelli advocates using miniature cones to hold ice cream, as a garnish to be used around the base of a larger dessert. An illustration in the book for his recipe for Iced Pudding à la Chesterfield shows this.

In her "Mrs. Marshall's Cookery Book" (London: 1888), Agnes Marshall writes about cones (which she calls cornets) that are baked in the oven and could be filled with cream, ice cream, custard or fruit.

In 1902, a UK patent (701,776) was granted on 3 June to a Antonio Valvona of Manchester, England for a device to make "Biscuit Cups for Ice Cream."

In 1903, a US patent (746,971) was granted on 15 December to an Italo Marchiony (1868-1954) for a device to make "ice-cream cups". His, though, had small handles on the side.

The St Louis Fair in 1904 helped to popularize Ice Cream in cones.






Language Notes
Called a "cornet" in the UK and some parts of North America.

See Also:

Ice Cream

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