Ice cream


Recently I saw one of the kids at my son’s school eating an ice cream bar. Well, it was called an “ice cream bar”.

Then I looked at the ingredients.

  • nonfat milk and milkfat
  • water
  • sugar
  • corn syrup
  • whey
  • citric acid
  • stabiliser (mono & diglycerides, guar gum, polysorbate 80, xanthan gum and and carob bean gum
  • artificial flavour
  • artificial colour (red #40, yellow #5, blue #1)
  • I read these ingredients with increasing horror. WHAT is this stuff? It sure as heck doesn’t sound like ice cream! I immediately searched for an easy ice cream recipe. Compare the above with this ice cream recipe:

  • 1.75 cups heavy cream
  • 1.25 cup whole milk
  • 0.75 cup sugar
  • 1/8th teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean split in half
  • Which would you rather feed your child? I know which one I prefer. Hop on over to Barefeet in the Kitchen for the full ice cream recipe.

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