Self-Sufficiency in Style
gadgets and gizmos
the ice cream maker
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Self-Sufficiency in Style gadgets and gizmos the ice cream maker
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The Ice Cream Maker saves a
lot of labour It can produce a wide range of deserts quickly from your own produce. These can be stored and used the whole year around. |
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This particular Ice Cream maker comes as an attachment to the "Kenwood."
Costing around £40 new, it is a worthwhile purchase. A half hours work will produce deserts for a couple of days...perhaps days when the smallholding leaves too little time for cooking. Perhaps when the cook needs a day off. You do need to have one piece, the freezing bowl, stored in the freezer and ready for action before starting production. |
The freezing bowl is always kept in the freezer. |
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The mix. |
A simple mix of
Sugar (2 1/2 oz.) 75 g Milk (9 fl. oz.) 250 ml Heavy Cream (9 fl. oz ) 250 ml ..with Vanilla or Vanilla essence to flavour (or a puree of soft fruit ) There are hundreds of recipes. |
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As part of the kit, you get a paddle and a cover. This is assembled into
the freezing bowl.
The freezing bowl is already cold. |
Paddle and cover. |
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Attach the whole caboodle to the "Kenwood", set it running and
add your mixture.
Anything up to half an hour later, it will be ready to serve. |
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Ice cream making is a good example of how modern gadgets and gizmos will help the small-holder. The milk will have been separated in a cream separator. The butter will have been churned in the "Kenwood", the mixture mixed and, finally, the ice cream frozen in the same machine. |
Spoon it into a container for freezing. |
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Clean,
neatly covered and ready for use again. |
You will notice that we are not only talking about kitchen duties, but much more about preserving food for the winter. The season when there is no milk, cream or soft fruit. All these items can be frozen separately, but they can also be combined together for storage and instant meals. You can find out what the Pasta-maker can do, can go back to the Kenwood or you go on to think about a Bread-maker , if you wish, for that is one of the few food production tasks that you won't need the "Kenwood" to help along.
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freezing things at the chillingly named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner. |
