Imagine this… you and your kids decide to make some wonderful homemade ice cream; you get all your ingredients ready, set up your ice cream maker and turn it on….only to realize that it is not working! What do you do, scrapping the project might not really work (the kids won’t allow you to), but you have never tried making ice cream without a machine…Well don’t worry; here is a real simple way to make homemade vanilla ice cream using just a bag and a jar.

Ingredient:

• 1 cup – Milk

• ¾ cup – Full cream

• ½ cup – Sugar

• 3 #      – Eggs

• ½ tbsp – Vanilla essence

• 8 tbsp – Salt

• Ice cubes or crushed ice

• 1 – Air tight jar

• 1 largest size zip lock bag 

1. Beat the egg yolk and sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Mix the egg yolk-sugar mixture with milk and cream in a thick bottom saucepan and cook over a low flame.

3. Once the mixture gets custard like consistency, put off the heat and cool.

4. Stiffly beat egg whites. Fold the egg whites and vanilla essence into the milk mixture.

5. Beat the whole ice cream mix till light and fluffy.

6. Pre-chill an air tight jar for 2 to 3 hrs in a freezer. Pour the ice cream mix into the chilled air tight jar and seal.

7. Fill the zip lock bag with crushed ice and salt. 

8. Place the air tight jar into the zip loc bag, seal the bag and shake vigorously.

9. After about 10 to 15 mins your soft serve homemade vanilla ice cream is ready to be savored, have it immediately or allow it to harden in the freezer for 2 hrs.

Note:

Preferably use a ½ pint jar and prepare the ice cream in small batches, the cooling will take less time this way.

Fill the zip lock with ice cubes just before placing the jar into it, this will ensure that the temperature inside the bag is low enough to freeze the ice cream. 

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