Homemade Ice Cream
It is often said that traveling to a holiday destination with family or friends is half the fun of the vacation. If we run along this line of thinking we can also say that preparing homemade ice cream is half the fun of eating it.
With so many sites on the Internet offering free ice cream recipes, it should not be too difficult to get started on preparing your own mix. If you know your way around the kitchen and are familiar with the ingredients that go into foodstuffs, you may even experiment and come up with your own original ice cream flavor.
Ice cream makers fill up store shelves and web pages. Most new models are automatic. All you need to do is prepare your ingredients, pour them into the machine, flick a switch, and wait for your ice cream. You can call in your family into the kitchen and have dad cut up the bananas or peaches or strawberries. Get the boys to measure the cream, sugar, vanilla or almond. The girls can handle the egg yolks.
Another type of ice cream maker is the old manual kind. The ingredients are the same but you will need to put rock salt and crushed ice into a compartment of the machine. After this, you can get your kids into a contest on who can roll and shake the ice cream maker the longest.
Either way, automatic or manual maker, you can have fun making your homemade ice cream.