A strange little side quest
Between one round of Lovely Cat: Dessert Bakery and the next, this is worth knowing: Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer in 1843 that used an inner churning chamber surrounded by ice. A second detail makes the picture even better: In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. That gives Lovely Cat: Dessert Bakery a little more company than it first appears to have.
