Blackberry ice cream!

[elfs]

So, we've spent the day cleaning and folding and preparing our camping gear for a trip out to Mt. Rainier park, where we're going spend three or four days having a good time and hanging out and just being away from the rest of the world. Ohmigoddess, 96 hours without Internet access. I may just die! Nah, I'll bring a good book or two. The car is now sparkling clean on the inside.

We made blackberry ice cream this afternoon. 1.5 cups heavy cream, 1 cup half-and-half, two cups blackberries and a half cup of sugar. The ice cream maker worked fine despite my reservations, and the end result was absolutely delicious. The Rival brand ice-cream maker worked adequately although the "cryogel" pack chiller (an industrial chill pack in a plastic container with an aluminum contact plate for the inside of the mixing bowl) doesn't really make ice cream so much as ice slush. I put it into a ziplock bag and squeezed all of the air out, and it hardened nicely. Yummy!

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[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

From the various programs on FoodTV, commercial ice cream is put into a deep freeze for 24 hours after the tub/box is filled. However, I suspect that part of that is getting it as cold as possible to help it survive shipment better.