It’s good stuff
April 18, 2008 (Friday)
Did you know you can make a small amount of ice cream at home in 5 minutes? Put the ice and salt in a gallon zip lock bag, and put the ice cream mix in a pint zip lock bag. Put the sealed pint bag into the gallon bag, seal it and shake the whole thing like crazy for 5 minutes. Remove the pint bag and eat the ice cream. Wow. I saw that in “How Stuff Works” online.
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/ice-cream3.htm
I’ve never tried it. Just thought it looked like fun project.
Ice Cream. Is there anything in the world quite like it? It’s been around for many centuries, as people stored ice from winter in caves, etc. but the product was more like snow cones than ice cream. Ice cream has steadily grown in popularity since the 1700’s, and today the United States leads the world in its production. It is now a multibillion dollar industry.
When I was in the seminary, I worked at a creamery. Several seminary students were employed, and our main job was creating the “drumstick,” you know, the ice cream in a cone, covered with chocolate and peanuts, with a paper wrapper. Dr. C. Wilson Brumley, who later became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Rockport before I did, was one of those students around the table serving as a makeshift assembly line about 8 or ten feet long. Later, after I had moved on, Bro. Glen Ray, who recently pastored the Timbergrove Baptist Church, worked in the same creamery when he was a seminary student.
The company gave us a fudgecicle, or something similar, if we wanted it, to take home each day. My friend, Ken Brown, took home a fudgecicle each day and gave it to his pet dog, who always ate it and buried the stick. There is a back yard full of ice cream sticks in Fort Worth today.
When we count our many blessings, naming them one by one, let’s not forget, “Ice Cream!”
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