Ice Cream in a Bag
Summer continues to slowly warm our chilled Washington bones. There are rumors that it will be in the 80’s on Friday. Gasp! Run for the sunscreen! We’ve already received three invitations to hit the water (beach, lake and pool - we could do it all).
Sarah is ready to make some ice cream.
Feeling heady from the sunshine, the younger children and I went to the grocery store this afternoon to pick up supplies for making homemade ice cream. Dinner was a near thing as certain family members voted to move straight to dessert. Thankfully wiser heads prevailed and we enjoyed a nutritious meal before rushing off to prepare our icy sweet confections.
The boys pause for their camera crazy mama.
Ice Cream in a Bag
Ingredients:
* 1 tbs. sugar
* 1/2 c. milk (or 1/2 & 1/2)
* 1/4 tsp vanilla
* 6 tbs rock salt (or table salt)
* 1 gallon size Ziploc bag
* 1 quart size Ziploc bag
Grab a bag and shake it!
Directions:
1. Fill the gallon size bag half way with ice. Add the rock salt.
2. Mix the milk, vanilla and sugar in the quart size bag. Seal bag carefully.
3. Put the smaller bag inside the larger bag and seal the gallon bag.
4. Shake the bag for at least 5 minutes until mixture becomes thick and ready to serve.
5. Rinse quart size bag carefully with cold water before eating.
Delicious - Cold Stone Creamy R Us
Enjoy! I can see this becoming a summer tradition. It was delicious. Next time I think we’ll double the mixture and make a little more. I would also like to experiment with some add’ins. 
Tim put on work gloves to shake his bag. It was definitely COLD work!!
Kathy
Project 366 - Day 177
June 26th, 2008 at 4:50 am
What adorable pictures today. Your kids are all so beautiful. I want to try this with my kiddos when they get home. They’d like it!
Looks like you all are doing very well with your budget. Congratulations on your hard work!
Leeann
niccofive.blogspot.com
June 26th, 2008 at 5:23 am
How fun!!! We are going to definately try this! Have you tried adding any flavors in yet? Let us know - we’ll let you be the guinea pigs!!! The kids are going to love this! Where’d you find the recipe???
June 26th, 2008 at 5:49 am
YUM! We’ve made icecream in a can (like a coffee can) before and the kids had a LOT of fun rolling it all around. It was a “science” experiment (LOL)!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:07 am
yum! I love homemade ice cream and I had no idea you could make it without the fancy schmany ice cream maker!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Tantalyzing title to be sure.
YUM. I love you Edgrens. Aunt Kate
June 26th, 2008 at 7:27 am
What a wonderful memory for your kids to have! Thanks for sharing with the rest of us.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am
We have done this before with our children - it actually tastes pretty good! It’s a lot of fun, too!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
That looks both fun and delicious. Sounds like a perfect dessert to experiment with on my next camping trip.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
My favorite picture of Tim- EVER!!!!
How are you guys??
June 26th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
We just did this- it was so fun!! We gave up with the churning and enjoyed using a straw for our shake:)
June 26th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
oooooooooo yummy!
June 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I’ve heard of this but never knew any real people who’d actually done it. Glad to know it really works!
June 29th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Thanks for posting the recipe! It sounds like fun!