Speaking of needlessly perverting a fine product... I just received an email with a recipe for Lucky Charms Milkshake (it has 3 cups of ice cream, so I'm only 40% off-topic). **************************************************Ingredients 3 cups vanilla ice cream 1 cup milk 1 cup Lucky Charms ¼ cup marshmallow fluff Whipped cream Marshmallow bits (marbits) Instructions Blend together the ice cream, milk, Lucky Charms and marshmallow fluff until the mixture is smooth. Pour into a glass and top with whipped cream and more Lucky Charms or marbits. Enjoy! **************************************************
@Shirley Martin Unintended consequences got in the way and effectively curtailed many, almost all, of my intended projects. Put simply, I'm lucky to be alive..... Frank
Have you ever seen this done? It sounds fascinating, and there's no "drag it out every 5 years" appliance to store.
I have actually done that, @John Brunner . It works! When I was having the Summer Reading Program at the library, I had crafts that the kids could do. The program was an hour and a half. The kid's attention span was fifteen minutes. I or my assistant would read to them for fifteen minutes then let them do a craft. That would take quite a bit of time. Then we would read to them for another few minutes. One of the crafts was making ice cream in plastic bags. We used sandwich bags for the ice cream mix and bigger bags for the ice and salt. The kids shook the bags until the ice cream formed. Then they got to eat the ice cream. It wouldn't be practical for large amounts but it was lots of fun for us.
Thanks, Shirley! I went looking on the web. Lots of folks doing this. One woman made the base for peach ice cream, cooking the ingredients and then cooling them in the freezer before beginning the squeeze. I gotta do it at least once.
You know, I started saying that to myself about 20# ago. But it looks so WHOLESOME!!!! Interestingly, I've see recipes that use milk, recipes that use cream and recipes that use 1/2&1/2. I'm a little surprised because I would have thought that fat content played a role in the success/failure, but now I guess not.
I think we only used milk, sugar and vanilla flavoring. Probably not the best tasting ice cream ever but they liked it because they made it themselves.