(9) Homemade ice cream

Summer is coming. Cool drinks and a variety of ice cream, frappe, smoothie are almost daily necessities for some people. Ice cream is a super popular dessert. However, though the flavor and specialty of it become more and more diverse and attractive, the artificial additives and resources of ingredients are often unknown. Especially we often eat food which is harmful to health unconsciously due to the progress of technology.

As a result, more and more people tend to cook or bake cuisines by themselves and it leads to the inventions of many novel “food producers,” such as bread maker, which help you making bread from the first step, mix ingredients, to the last step, bake at a time with only one machine automatically. I wanted to buy an ice cream maker before. Nevertheless, after I found that I have to put one of the components of the ice cream maker into freezer for at least twelve hours before I use it, the decision of getting one was totally disappeared. Though I give up buying the machine, the desire of eating a special, safe and clean ice cream is still in my mind.

Thanks to the magic of Internet, it’s easy to find recipes and the way of making ice cream on your own without the help of expensive machine. I made some ice cream last summer following the recipe and the finished product is perfect. Even though my father, who considered the ice cream will taste like frozen sweet butter, said that it was really delicious “ice cream“.

Ingredients:
A:

Whipped cream: 200ml
Milk: 300ml
Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon
B:

3 Egg yolks
Sugar: 90g

Milk and whipped cream are important to ice cream so use the high quality one for yourself.

Steps:
Mix A together, heat it to hot but not boiling.
Mix B together in another container.
Add B into A slowly (don’t pour all of it at a time) after A is at room temperature, it’s important or the egg yolk will be cooked into small clumps.
Heat the mixture on low flame and keep stirring until it becomes dense.
Put it into freezer.

The last step takes lot of patience because you have to take it out, blender it every hour, put it back to freezer, then keep this cycle until it become “ice cream”.

I suggest that you can do what you what to do, such as reading a book, or watching TV during the waiting time, or you will become restless because it is hard to stop the desire of eating it when the recipe forces you to look at the unfinished product, however, remember to find a alarm.

The recipe is simple so let’s make ice cream at home this summer! :)