how to make ice cream

How to make ice cream :9

We've all had really bad cravings for ice cream. Don't go running down to the store or market for an ice cream fix. If you have salt, ice, milk, sugar, and plastic bags, consider making it yourself. This article will cover several different methods for making ice cream at home. This is also a great activity to do with children of any age and makes for a good activity when learning about the states of matter - it shows a liquid changing to a solid by freezing, and then while they're eating it, the solid changes back to a liquid by melting.

Steps

Freezer Bag Method

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   This is good for making individual servings of ice cream to be eaten promptly after making. The video below shows a slightly different recipe but still instructs on how to make ice cream with a sandwich bag.
   
   
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    Mix sugar, milk or half & half, and flavoring in a bowl, then seal it in a quart-sized plastic bag.
   Mix sugar, milk or half & half, and flavoring in a bowl, then seal it in a quart-sized plastic bag.
   • For this method, if you use chocolate for the flavoring, double it.
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    Take roughly two quarts of ice, crushed if possible, and place it into the gallon-sized bag with rock salt (also known as coarse salt).
   Take roughly two quarts of ice, crushed if possible, and place it into the gallon-sized bag with rock salt (also known as coarse salt). Ideally, the gallon bag will be roughly half full with the ice and salt mixture.
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    Place the sealed quart-sized bag with the ingredients into the gallon-sized bag.
   Place the sealed quart-sized bag with the ingredients into the gallon-sized bag. Make sure the bags stay sealed. Do not allow the contents to mix at any time. If the bags don't seal sufficiently, use duct tape to seal the top of both bags to ensure they don't open during shaking.
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    Gently agitate, massage, and shake the bags for about fifteen to twenty minutes.
   Gently agitate, massage, and shake the bags for about fifteen to twenty minutes. In this amount of time the contents of the quart bag should start to turn into solid ice cream. It is important that you are mixing the contents of the inner bag, but you don’t want to be so aggressive that you burst the inner bag or cut it on the ice. Double-bagging should prevent this. If your hands get uncomfortably cold, use a towel or an old t-shirt to hold the bags as you massage them; they will be quite cold and might become slippery with accumulated condensation. Consider using gloves or massaging while holding onto the top seal if a towel or similar cloth is not available.
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    Then once you are done, enjoy your ice cream.
   Then once you are done, enjoy your ice cream.