How to Make Ice Cream

Ice cream, a frozen food derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice, typically eaten as a snack or dessert, usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors.

In the Philippines, the traditional variation of ice cream are called Sorbetes. It is distinct from the similarly named sorbet. Peddled by street hawkers using colorfully painted wooden carts, it is usually can accommodate three ice cream flavors served with small wafer or sugar cones, small plastic cup and more recently, bread buns at varying prices.

Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 gallon powdered milk
• 1-1/2 gallon coconut milk
• 1/3 gallon evaporated milk
• 2 kilo sugar
• 1/3 kilo corn starch

Procedures:

1. Mix all ingredients using mixer (or egg beater) until the consistency is foamy.
2. Pour in a stainless steel pan or boiler. Let boil for 15 minutes to kill any microbes or bacteria. Set aside to cool.
3. Put desired flavoring (artificial flavors): vanilla, lemon or kalamansi (can be obtain from peels), chocolate, coffee, nuts, cashew and others. You can also use real fruit flavors like mango, ube, macapuno, cheese, etc.
4. Put into freezer for half an hour or until half-frozen.
5. Remove from freezer and mix again (with big wooden spon or egg beater) until the consistency becomes a thick mass.
6. Transfer it in round stainless container. Cover, put it in wooden push cart. Put lots of crushed ice and salt between the container. You can use dry ice as an alternative.
7. The ice-cream will get hard in 20 minutes.