ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF LINDA JOHNSON Executive Director [email protected] JULIE DIDION Community Relations Director 5020 Ryan Rd, Toledo, OH 43614 P: 419-389-0800 F: 419-389-0819 JULY 2021 [email protected] KRYSTAL ADKINS CELEBRATING ICE CREAM Resident Care Coordinator [email protected] This celebration was originated by Joint Resolution 298 in the United States JENNIFER DAZELL Senate, which was sponsored by Senator Business Office Manager Walter Dee Huddleston of Kentucky on [email protected] May 17th 1984 and Joint resolution 543 in the United States House of JODI KIMBALL Activity Director Representatives, which was sponsored by [email protected] Representative Kika de la Garza of Texas Americans consume about 23 gallons of on April 11, 1984. The resolution KILEY CULKOWSKI ice cream each year, on average. As the proclaimed the month of July 1984 as Dining Room Manager summer reaches peak temperatures in "National Ice Cream Month" and July 15th [email protected] July, Americans celebrate National Ice 1984, as "National Ice Cream Day". ELLEN MATTESON Cream Month as a way to cool off and Even though the legislation only applied Housekeeping enjoy the nation’s favorite frozen treat with to 1984, July has been used ever since as friends and family. Ice cream has National Ice Cream Month. PETE MOLINA historically been a key feature of American Maintenance communities. According to International ICE CREAM is a gateway Dairy Foods Association, most ice cream to other desserts! companies are family owned and have The most beautiful thing about ice cream is been in operation for more than 50 years! how many delicious desserts it can go on Here’s more sweet news: Ice cream top of. Brownie with chocolate ice cream? companies help support the U.S. Yes please! Pie with a side of vanilla? Pile it economy, contributing more than $13.1 on us. This month is a great excuse to eat Money can't buy happiness, billion directly to the national economy lots of desserts—as long as they involve ice But it can buy ice cream and supporting more than 28,800 direct cream, they're fair game. Thomas P. 7/6 jobs that generate $1.8 billion in direct And that is pretty much the Eleanor C. 7/14 wages. In 2019, about 6.4 billion gallons Try as many ICE CREAM flavors same thing. of ice cream and related frozen desserts William B. 7/18 as you can! were produced in the United States. How many ice cream flavors can you eat Margaret F. 7/25 That’s something to celebrate! this month? We challenge you to try at least Herman A. 7/29 We love ice cream, so this month, join us 10, but you can set your own goal and see Patricia M. 7/31 while we will dive in to see the wide world how well you do. We know we'll be aiming of ice cream! for the moon—try and keep up! Continued from previous column... VISIT OHIO'S OLDEST DAIRY The hot mixture is then "shot" through a TOFT'S July 13th at 2:00pm homogenizer where pressure, on average From a small family dairy farm in the early 1900’s around 2000 pounds per square inch, to a state of the art 76,000 square foot facility on breaks the milkfat down into smaller Venice Road, the legacy of Toft Dairy is a story of a particles, allowing the mixture to stay commitment to quality and forward-thinking smooth and creamy. The mix is then quick- principles. It all started back in the year 1900 when Chris and Matilda Toft began selling raw milk by a cooled to about 40°F and frozen. horse drawn wagon to the citizens of Sandusky, During freezing, the mix is aerated by Ohio. With the purchase of Oswald Dairy in 1935, "dashers," revolving blades in the freezer. the Toft Dairy reputation spread throughout the How Ice Cream is Made The small air cells that are incorporated by region. This led to the adoption of wholesale and From Cow to Cone this whipping action prevent ice cream retail routes which provided the foundation for from becoming a solid mass of frozen business growth which was vital to get Toft’s to Everybody has a favorite flavor or brand where it is today. of ice cream, and the debate over whose ingredients. Milk is delivered to the plant in Sandusky 365 days ice cream is the best rages on each year. The next step is the addition of bulky a year from 20 local farms, all of which are within a While each manufacturer develops its own flavorings, such as fruits, nuts and 50-mile radius. Contracting with local farmers special recipes, ice cream production chocolate chips. The ingredients are either allows Toft’s to guarantee their customers that they basics are basically the same everywhere. "dropped" or "shot" into the semi-solid ice use the freshest quality of milk to make all of their cream after it leaves the freezer. delicious products. This family owned and operated The most important ice cream dairy is now over 120 years old and is Ohio’s oldest ingredients come from milk. The work After the flavoring additions are completed, dairy! Toft’s distributes its dairy and ice cream starts early on the farm, long before the the ice cream can be packaged in a variety products to customers within an approximate first traces of the sun even hit the horizon. of containers, cups or molds. It is moved 100-mile radius of the Sandusky plant. It starts with making feed for the cows quickly to a "hardening room," where sub- around midnight, followed by the first zero temperatures freeze the product to its About that Ice Cream Headache… final state for storage and distribution. The ice cream headache – every ice milking of the day at around one o’clock in I SCREAM FOR Ice Cream JOKES! the morning. The dairy ingredients are cream lover’s nightmare. What’s the best TOP TEN FLAVORS 1. Where do you learn to make way to get rid of it? crucial in determining the characteristics complicated ice cream dishes? Ice cream makers and retailers ❂ To stop this attack of “brain freeze,” of the final frozen product. Federal Sundae School. say the Great Lakes region (Illinois, which is a reaction to cold objects touching regulations state that ice cream must 2. Why does everyone invite ice cream to Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and the roof of your mouth, we found a few have at least 10 percent milkfat, the single the party? It’s cool. Wisconsin) is the most successful cures. most critical ingredient. The milkfat 3. Why are popsicles so snobby? ice cream market. So what are affects the palatability, smoothness, color, They have a stick up their butt. Short and sweet – wait it out. Give it 30-60 texture and food value of the finished those successful flavors? 4. Did you hear they passed a law banning seconds and it should come and go on its product. Gourmet or super-premium ice Here's the top ten favorite ice ice cream? own. creams contain at least 12 percent cream flavors in America! Don’t worry, it was ruled un-cone-stitutional! ❂ The best offensive is a good defense – milkfat, usually more. 1. Vanilla 5. What’s the best band to listen to while avoid touching the ice cream to the roof of The sweeteners used in ice cream vary 2. Chocolate eating ice cream? Spoon! your mouth. from cane or beet sugar to corn 3. Cookies N’ Cream 6. How is ice cream as a girlfriend? ❂ And our personal favorite – grab some sweeteners or honey. 4. Mint Chocolate Chip The sweetest. real whipped cream. Eat as much whipped These basic ingredients are agitated and 5. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 7. Why is ice cream so bad at tennis? cream as you can and it will help the blended in a mixing tank. The mixture is 6. Buttered Pecan They have a soft serve. headache subside. Not to mention, you then pumped into a pasteurizer, where it is 7. Cookie Dough 8. How did Reese eat her ice cream? have a reason to eat as much whipped Witherspoon. heated and held at a predetermined 8. Strawberry cream as you want! temperature. Continued on next column... 9. Moose Tracks 10. Neapolitan A Business is Born The Origin of Ice Cream ICE CREAM SUNDAES St. Louis, a foundry town, quickly An ice-cream-like food was first eaten in Historians argue over the originator of capitalized on the cone's success. China in 618-97AD. King Tang of Shang, the ice cream sundae, three historical Enterprising people invented special baking had 94 ice men who helped to make a probabilities are the most popular: equipment for making the World's Fair dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor. Version One - Evanston, Illinois cornucopia cones. A kind of ice-cream was invented in China In the Midwestern parts of United States, laws Stephen Sullivan of Sullivan, Missouri, was about 200 BC when a milk and rice were once passed that prohibited the selling of one of the first known independent mixture was frozen by packing it into soda water on a Sunday. The town of Evanston, operators in the ice cream cone business. In snow. Illinois was one of the first towns to pass such a 1906, Sullivan served ice cream cones (or Roman emperors are supposed to have law around the year 1890. As an alternative on cornucopias, as they were still called) at the sent slaves to mountain tops to bring back Sundays, local soda fountains started selling ice cream sodas minus the soda, which left only the Modern Woodmen of America Frisco Log fresh snow which was then flavoured and ice cream and syrup.