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Nancy M. Johnson is credited with inventing the hand-churned ice cream maker that can be used at home. It may surprise you that her mid-19th Century freezer set-up is the same used in 21st Century home ice cream makers!
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The metal inner can with all the yummy milk-and-sugar-and-fruit ingredients is placed into the outer bucket. Ice and salt are placed between the inner and outer containers. The salt lowers the freezing temperature of the ice. A layer of milk freezes on the inside of the inner can, and the rotating paddle scrapes it off, allowing another layer to freeze, which in turn is scraped off…
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If you make your own ice cream, you can experiment with wild and wacky flavors such as Buttered Popcorn, Strawberry Basil, or Chocolate-covered Potato Chips. I don’t personally suggest squid, ox tongue, or eel ice cream—but they exist in Japan!
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Make ice cream today!
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Here is a website with ice cream recipes to follow, learn from, or use as a starting point.
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Don’t have an ice cream maker? You could try making ice cream in a bag.
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By any other name…
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Do you know the difference between ice cream, frozen yogurt, frozen custard, sorbet, sherbet, gelato, ices, Icee, soft serve, shaved ice, snow cones? And what the heck are Dippin’ Dots?n