Vanilla Ice Cream - I

Mix ingredients and freeze according to directions for freezing.

Individual Portion Ice Cream And Peaches

Ice Cream Moulded In Brick Form And Peaches

Cost of Preparing Home Recipe of Ice Cream.

Working Directions To Be Followed By All Even Numbered Girls

NOTE: In today's Lesson you should prepare the ice and salt for freezing, also prepare the ice cream. Follow each paragraph closely.

See Recipe on Front Page.

Put the ice and salt into the dish pan placed at your table by your partner. See FIGURE 1.

Measure the cream, sugar and salt into your pudding mould (steamer) or tin measuring cup.

Cover it and put it into the ice and salt.

After 5 minutes take out your spatula or knife and scrape the sides of the tin containing the cream mixture, and give it a good stirring or beating.

Let it stand for 5 minutes.

Repeat until the mixture is entirely frozen.

Serve yourself.

You are to WASH the dishes today according to directions already learned.

FIGURE 1.

HOME RECIPES. VANILLA ICE CREAM - II.

1 1/2 Cups Scalded Milk. 1 Tablespoon Flour.

3/4 Cup Sugar.

1/8 Teaspoonful Salt.

1 Egg.

1 Quart Thin Cream.

2 Tablespoons Vanilla.

Mix flour, sugar and salt; add egg slightly beaten, and milk gradually. Cook in double boiler 20 minutes, stirring constantly at first. Should custard have curdled appearance, it will disappear in freezing. When cool, add flavoring and cream. Strain and freeze.

Chocolate Ice Cream

Melt four ounces unsweetened chocolate; add one cup water and boil 5 minutes. Add this to Vanilla Ice Cream mixture.

Strawberry Ice Cream

1 Quart Thin Cream. 1 Cup Sugar.

1 Box Strawberries.

Wash and hull berries. Sprinkle with sugar. Let stand 1 hour. Mash and rub through strainer. Add the cream and freeze.

Caramel Ice Cream

Prepare the same as Vanilla Ice Cream II, using 1 1/2 cups sugar. Caramelize 1 cupful of the sugar by putting the dry sugar into a smooth saucepan or spider over the fire, stirring until the sugar melts and looks like a syrup.

Nut Ice Cream

Add chopped nuts to Vanilla Ice Cream mixture.

Milk Sherbet

2 Cups Sugar.

1/2 Cup Lemon Juice. 1 Quart Milk.

Mix the sugar and strained lemon juice. Pour the milk into the freezer-can, add the lemon mixture. Stir thoroughly, cover and freeze.

Cream and grated pineapple together with the lemon juice makes a very good mixture.

Questions

1. Why do we combine ice and salt for freezing mixtures?

2. What proportions of ice and salt would you use when you desire to freeze a fine grained mixture?

3. What proportions for a coarsely grained mixture?

4. Why scald the can, etc., before freezing?

5. How many parts to an ordinary freezer?

6. Can you make ice cream without a freezer?

7. What would you use in place of a freezer? Explain.

8. How was your ice cream today?

9. What is a refrigerator?

10. Of what is it made?

11. How many parts are essential?

12. For what is it used?

13. How should the ice be treated?

14. How can you keep the refrigerator sweet and clean?

15. Is ice cream nourishing?

Suggestions For Home Application

In this lesson you have quite a number of recipes for frozen cream dishes, with the general rules for freezing. A great variety of frozen dishes called ices may be prepared by freezing a mixture of fruit juice sweetened and diluted with water. These will be found very refreshing, and although they are not nourishing like ice cream, they make a delightful accompaniment for the meat course and may also be served for dessert.

Below are some recipes for ices you can try out at home.

Lemon Ice

4 Cups Water. 2 Cups Sugar.

3/4 Cup Lemon Juice.

Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar 20 minutes; add lemon juice, cool, strain and freeze, according to directions for freezing ice cream.

Orange Ice

4 Cups Water. 2 Cups Sugar. 2 Cups Orange Juice.

1/4 Cup Lemon Juice.

Grated Rind of 2 Oranges.

Make a syrup as for Lemon Ice; add fruit juices and grated rind; cool, strain and freeze.

RASPBERRY ICE. I.

4 Cups Water. 1 2/3 Cups Sugar.

2 Cups Raspberry Juice. 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice.

Make a syrup as for Lemon Ice, cool, add lemon juice and raspberries mashed and squeezed through double cheese cloth; strain and freeze.

If the natural color of the fruit is desired in the Ice a good brand of fruit coloring may be added before freezing; or use 1 quart berries, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water and lemon juice to taste. Allow water, sugar and berries to stand 2 hours to extract juice from berries and thoroughly disolve sugar; mash and squeeze through double cheesecloth; add lemon juice to taste, and freeze.

Strawberry Ice

4 Cups Water. 1 1/2 Cups Sugar.

2 Cups Strawberry Juice. 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice.

Prepare and freeze the same as Raspberry Ice.

Raspberry And Currant Ice

4 Cups Water. 1 1/3 Cups Sugar.

2/3, Cup Raspberry Juice. 1 1/3 Cups Currant Juice.

Prepare and freeze same as Raspberry Ice.