CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

SOME FROZEN DELICACIES. ICES WITHOUT A FREEZER. Dear Girls, — There seems nothing mora pleasant to talk about now that the hot weather has come in real earnest than ice cream. I know of very few people who do not like ice cream and I'm sure that on a hot summer's day there is nothing more cooling and refreshing than an ice. It does not require an elaborate freezer in order to make ice cream at home, in fact all that you will require is a syrup or coffee tin with a tight-fitting lid, a big biscuit tin, which will not leak, or a wooden pail, some ice and a quantity of coarse salt, which can be procured quite cheaply. Ordinary ice, without salt, would not perform the process of freezing your ices, because it would not be cold enough. When salt is added to ice a process takes place which produces a degree of cold which is much lower than that at which water freezes. In setting up the freezer, then, you will first place a layer of crushed ice in the bottom of the •wooden pail or the biscuit tin, and then sprinkle it liberally with salt. The tin in which the ice cream is to be frozen will be stood upon this bottom, and alternate layers of ice and salt packed all round it. A thick blanket is wrapped about the outside of the whole freezer and this helps to keep in the cold. Whatever you do be sure not to allow any salt or ice to get into the tin in which you are to freeze the cream. i Within the tin the temperature becomes so low that a liquid in it would freeze quite solid if it were left, and io prevent this in the making of frozen delicacies the sides must continually ;"oe scraped with a wooden spoon. . . | Water ices can be made by making •a syrup from lib of sugar and 1 pint ;Of water, and adding to it fruit juice .crushed from strawberries or raspberries. j One variety of ice cream can be made by making a custard from half a pint of milk, the yolks of two eggs, a tablespoonful of Swiss milk and if you wish sugar to taste. , This can be flavoured witha vanilla 'or essence of almond. As an alternative to flavourings half a pound of jam could be added to the mixture. If it is' fruit season when you are making your ices strawberry or raspberry juice could be added to the custard and, better still/ half a pint of fresh cream. Girls, I am sure, will try their hands at making these ice creams, ana as a result of experiments, many hitherto unknown frozen delicacies will be invented by the venturesome busy bee.