Make Ice Cream at Home

If you love ice cream and have never made it at home, you're in for a real treat.

Few things can touch the pure, sweet joy that ice cream brings to little kids (and big kids) on a hot summer afternoon. There are countless ice cream novelties and frozen concoctions available to buy, but nothing beats the flavor of real homemade ice cream.

Homemade ice cream begins with basic household ingredients. Sugar, cream, milk and flavorings like vanilla, strawberries or cocoa is all you need. At the touch of a button, your homemade ice cream machine will turn these ingredients into something truly marvelous. It can also be used to make sorbet, frozen yogurt, slush and frozen beverages. It's so easy to use, that you and the kids can make homemade ice cream whenever you feel like a sweet treat.

It's incredible to think that a machine that brings such sweet joy can really be so simple:

1. Inside the ice cream maker, seated in its belly, are storage containers. You will pour your blended ingredients into this storage container.

2. The mixture is drawn from the storage container into a freezing chamber edged with refrigerant liners.

3. The ingredients are then fluffed to creamy perfection by agitator blades attached to electric motors.

4. The ice cream sets in the refrigerated chamber and begins to firm up.

5. When it's time to serve, raise the handle on the dispenser unit. Your fresh ice cream will fall out of the machine and right into your bowl.

In the past, entire families would take turns cranking the old-fashioned ice cream maker. Ingredients were mixed in a prepared metal container, which was kept cold by storing it in a mixture of ice and salt. All of the kids, mom and dad would help by turning the crank to move the paddles, or by stirring the ingredients with a wooden paddle. This took a lot of effort, but the results were so sweet. Over the years improvements were made to the ice cream making process. For example, motorized paddle agitators were fitted into metal containers. Of course, today's machines can churn out the same quality of tasty ice cream at the push of a button.

If you have kids or grandkids, pick up an ice cream maker to create a sweet treat for any occasion.

Writer Garnett Foards writes regularly for several well-known online magazines, on family portrait and home interior subjects.
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