Fresh from the pages of my boyfriend's hometown paper, an interesting recipe for homemade ice cream made in a Ziploc freezer bag. Intriguing, non? All you need is someone who's hearty enough to shake the contents consistently for ten minutes- that's maybe your strength training for the long weekend. The better the ingredients you use, the more delicious the end result will be- this is a case where it's totally worth splurging for organic/high quality ingredients.
Here's the scoop:
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 sandwich ziploc bag
- 1 gallon ziploc bag
- 3 cups crushed ice
- 1/3 cup rock salt
*Note that the hometown paper includes a note to tape both the sandwich bag and freezer bag closed with duct tape to keep the contents of each from mixing.
** sidenote- while researching rock salt, I came across the origin of the word 'salt'- from the Latin 'salarium', which was the name for a soldier's pay in the army of ancient Rome. The pay included a large ration of salt, which was a spice of high value and also a medium for exchange; thus the origin of such expressions as "salt of the earth" and "worth your salt."
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