Screamin’ for Ice Cream

We all scream for ice cream, right?

Zman had a piece on his subscribestar account about making ice cream, of all things.

It turns out that you have to be a moron to screw up ice cream making. The first try resulted in the best thing I have had since I was a kid. The old people often made ice cream in the summer and that is what immediately came to mind. I am not a big vanilla ice cream fan, but I could have eaten the whole batch. I did eventually eat the whole batch the following week, but I did it in shifts.

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I’ve had two different ice cream machines over the years. The first was a motorized version of the old crank machines. Put in ice, salt the ice, put in the mix and let it go. It really is easy. About the only way to screw it up is to use milk, or nonfat cream, that sort of thing. You need all the fat in whole cream.

There is another angle here. Real ice cream is not all that unhealthy. There are no weird things in it that could be hazardous. Even premium store bought ice cream has funky chemicals in it to keep it shelf stable. Of course, it is not unusual for it to melt and be refrozen, so those chemicals help disguise that fact. The stuff you make at home is just a handful of things that have a natural origin.

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This is true of a lot of foods. Long ago I was watching a cooking show on PBS that said foods that are fried properly, or use old school ingredients weren’t intrinsically bad. Or rather, weren’t bad for you if you only had them from time to time. He said you were far better to eat something created properly.

I grew up with margarine. I never knew any different. But my mom bought it because it was thought, at the time, to be heart healthy. Turns out it’s far from it. First shopping trip at my new place, I bought butter and never went back. I use no light anything. I’d rather have a small portion of the real deal than a larger one that was prepared with all the chemicals.

Remember the ‘fat free’ chips? Cooked with ‘Olean’. Hoof!…gave me the runs bad.

Back to ice cream, when I eat it I go high octane. There’s a place up in Plano – Henry’s Ice Cream that is out of this world. When girl scouts sell cookies, he buys thin mints, and makes a mint ice cream with them. It’s nuts how good it is.

Near me, they opened an Andy’s custard. Haven’t been there yet, but I heard it’s good. It’s usually busy every evening.

I’ll have to try it out. I’m well under my weight goal. It’ll be the one time I eat the stuff this year.