Yes, it sounds dangerous and the potential for messes seems highly likely, but you'll be surprised at the good, "clean" fun you'll enjoy when you make ice cream.This recipe is enough for one person to make a dish!
1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon sugar 4 cups crushed ice 4 tablespoons salt 2 quart size Zip-loc bags 1 gallon size Zip-loc freezer bag a hand towel or gloves to keep fingers from freezing as well!
Mix the milk, vanilla and sugar together in one of the quart size bags. Seal tightly, allowing as little air to remain in the bag as possible. Too much air left inside may force the bag open during shaking. Place this bag inside the other quart size bag, again leaving as little air inside as possible and sealing well. By double-bagging, the risk of salt and ice leaking into the ice cream is minimized. Put the two bags inside the gallon size bag and fill the bag with ice, then sprinkle salt on top. Again let all the air escape and seal the bag. Wrap the bag in the towel or put your gloves on, and shake and massage the bag, making sure the ice surrounds the cream mixture. Five to eight minutes is adequate time for the mixture to freeze into ice cream.
Tips:
Freezer bags work best because they are thicker and less likely to develop small holes, allowing the bags to leak. You can get away with using regular Zip-loc bags for the smaller quart sizes, because you are double-bagging.Especially if you plan to do this indoors, I strongly recommend using gallon size freezer bags.
Here are some interesting tidbits:
What does the salt do? Just like we use salt on icy roads in the winter, salt mixed with ice in this case also causes the ice to melt. When salt comes into contact with ice, the freezing point of the ice is lowered. Water will normally freeze at 32 degrees F. A 10% salt solution freezes at 20 degrees F, and a 20% solution freezes at 2 degrees F. By lowering the temperature at which ice is frozen, we are able to create an environment in which the milk mixture can freeze at a temperature below 32 degrees F into icecream.
Who invented ice cream?
Legend has it that the Roman emperor, Nero, discovered ice cream. Runners brought snow from the mountains to make the first ice cream. In 1846, Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked ice cream churn and ice cream surged in popularity. Then, in 1904, ice cream cones were invented at the St. Louis World Exposition. An ice cream vendor ran out of dishes and improvised by rolling up some waffles to make cones. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 06-03-02, 11:10 PM travdona This sounds good I'm going to try it with my grandson. Thanks 06-06-02, 10:57 AM PerfectPeach I did that in chemistry for a lab experiment...
It was fun... alot better than electron & proton crap!
06-06-02, 02:20 PM Chicabird I didnt eat yet today..and i thought i'd try your recipe..YUM! I put chocolate chips in mine..
it was good- thanks! razz smile
07-11-02, 09:45 AM MkStfnz I have done something similar to this. Instead of using a gallon size bag with the ice and salt, I used a coffee can.
Put the ice and salt (and of course the ice cream mix) into the coffee can and put the top on the coffee can. When doing this with children, they have a fun time rolling the can back and forth across the table or on the floor (instead of massaging the bag).
07-11-02, 10:04 AM DorianGreyed Great idea, and a possible elementary school science experiment. I do take exception, however, to the St. Louis World's Fair story. I've seen a reference to a patent granted in 1903 for an ice cream cone maker. It's valid. In addition, a recipe appeared in an 1890s cookbook on how to make ice cream cones. The St. Louis Exhibition also is often geiven credit for hot dogs and iced tea. The term hot dogs to use to describe the sausage-shaped meat item like we know today was used in an 1895 in a Yale student newspaper. Hot dogs, by that name, are even older. Iced tea was a well-established Southern drink long before 1904. In fact, I've seen a mid-1870s or 80s newspaper account of a reunion of Confederate Civil War veterans held in Missouri. The article listed the menu and amounts consumed. I have forgotten how many hundreds of gallons of iced tea was consumed, but very obviously, it was nothing new even then. I live across the river from St. Louis, and have heard these stories all my life.
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