Strawberry ice cream dates back at least to 1813, when it was served at the second inauguration of James Madison.

[4] National Strawberry Ice Cream day is celebrated every year on January 15.

[5] The strawberry ice cream is steeped in legend, when in the early 19th, berries were used to flavor and color a unique desert created by Sallie Shadd, a freed slave whose family ran a tearoom in Wilmington, Delaware.

These parties included many treats, such as strawberry ice cream and were hosted before her husband, Abraham Lincoln's time as president.

[6] Stores quickly noticed the boom in Strawberry Ice Cream in the early-to-middle 20th Century.