Ice Cream in a Bag

Ice Cream in a Bag

Note: As in all recipes, results can vary depending on humidity, conditions, etc. Please try any recipe out before attempting in a group setting.

This project is rated VERY EASY to do.

What You Need

1 tablespoon Sugar

1/2 cup Milk or half & half (I use whole milk=cheaper than cream: it will work with the other milk but the ice cream is grainier)

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla

6 tablespoons Rock salt (even salt from your water softener will work)

1 pint-size Ziploc plastic bag

1 gallon-size Ziploc plastic bag

Ice cubes

How To Make It

1. Fill the large bag half full of ice, and add the rock salt. Seal the bag.

2. Put milk, vanilla, and sugar into the small bag, and seal it.

3. Place the small bag inside the large one and seal again carefully.

4. Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes.

5. Wipe off top of small bag, then open carefully and enjoy!

If anyone has milk allergies, try this with fruit juice. Use straight pineapple juice and get terrific fruit sorbet.

Ice Cream Points of Interest:

**Hundreds of years ago, Charles I of England hosted a state banquet for many of his friends and family during which ice cream was served to the guests.

**The Roman Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar is said to have sent slaves to the mountains to bring snow and ice to cool and freeze the fruit drinks he was so fond of.

**Centuries later, the Italian Marco Polo returned from his famous journey to the Far East with a recipe for making water ices resembling modern day sherbets.

**Dolly Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband's Inaugural Ball in 1813.

**Commercial production was begun in North America in Baltimore, Maryland, 1851, by Mr. Jacob Fussell, now known as the father of the American ice cream industry.

These are just a few of the many fascinating tales which surround the evolution of our country's most popular dessert, ice cream. More tales and science of ice cream itself can be found at the following address: http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/findsci.html.