After a long but successful hunt for our ice cream maker we noticed that one of the recipes for ice cream looked a lot like the eggnog Grandma had just made. Well.... why not?
Edward volunteered (?) to crank the ice cream maker since it is electric. But that turned out to be a significant amount of work making sure the ice and salt mixture was just rigiht.
Ed did a fantastic job as the creamy mixture started thickening after about 20 minutes and 5 minutes later it came to a halt. According to the ice cream maker directions, that it supposed to happen between 20 and 30 minutes after starting the machine.
Tim and Jake didn't quite know what to make of this process. They still thought you make ice cream by tossing bags of ice cream mix surrounded by ice and salt. But it didn't take Jake long to appreciate licking the dasher and Tim to enjoy licking the container.
I suspect the ice cream maker won't stay as hidden as it has been for the past 6 years. We still have the pudding mixes available.
Nathan has already reqeusted to make icecream with you guys too so make sure that you keep the ingredients on hand for our next visit.
ReplyDeleteWasn't I about their age when we bought that thing? Goodness, is the old Polymorphic still around too?
ReplyDeleteWe'll be sure to put this on the agenda for your next visit, Natalie. If we can do it in the middle of winter we should be able to do it any other time.
ReplyDeleteNo, the Polymorphic didn't survive the move but we probably have half a dozen other relics that we don't even think about until someone says, "Whatever happened to our old ....." We still have our old slide projector, movie projector, and reel to reel recorder, for example.