Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag from Spoonful.com
Ingredients
& Supplies
Ice cubes (enough to fill each gallon-size bag about half
full)
1 cup half and half
1/2 cup salt (The bigger the granules, the better. Kosher or
rock salt works best, but table salt is fine.)
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint-size ziplock bag
1 gallon-size ziplock bag
Your favorite mixins such as chocolate chips, cereal pieces,
or fresh fruit.
This recipe serves one.
Instructions
1. Combine the sugar, half and half, and vanilla extract in the pint-size bag and seal it tightly.2. Place the salt and ice in the gallon-size bag, then place the sealed smaller bag inside as well. Seal the larger bag. Now shake the bags until the mixture hardens (about 5 minutes). Feel the small bag to determine when it's done.
3. Take the smaller bag out of the larger one, add mix-ins, and eat the ice cream right out of the bag. Easy cleanup too!
A day camp group made ice cream in a bag during a recent visit
to our dairy;
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| The ingredients they used - you can substitute half & half for milk |
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| They placed ice in empty coffee containers then put the ingredients in one gallon bags |
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| The campers took turns shaking the containers |
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| The kids enjoyed the yummy ice cream! |
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| I spoke with the campers about the story of milk from cow to store |
This butter recipe is super easy. You can make it in your
home with one or two children with a group of kids in a classroom.
Butter Making
Ingredients &
Supplies:
Heavy Whipping Cream
Salt
Plastic contain or jar with a lid
Optional: marbles
Saltine crackers for serving
Instructions
Pour heavy whipping cream into plastic cups until about ½
full. Let the cream warm to room temperature (do not microwave). Shake the
container for about 10 minutes. In a classroom, have 5-6 children take turns
shaking the container. You can add a marble or two to the container to help
with the mixing. Pour off the liquid and add salt to taste. Spread onto a
saltine cracker and enjoy tasting the butter!
Ideas to enhance your
butter making experience;
1. To add flavor to your butter, add garlic, herbs or other mix-ins.
1. To add flavor to your butter, add garlic, herbs or other mix-ins.
2. To
make decorative butter for a special occasion, place the butter in candy molds
and refrigerate it until hard.
3. Make
this into a science project! Measure the milk temperature, record how
much time it takes to turn cream into butter, test this process at different milk
temperatures to see if there’s a difference, mix one batch using a marble and
one without.
Have fun and enjoy!
