Making ice cream teaching text colour[1]

Making
Ic e Cream by Jill MacGregor

Everyone in our class likes ice cream.
Our teacher found a recipe for
making ice cream without a freezer.
She said that if we brought the
5 equipment, she’d bring the ingredients.
Next morning, everyone arrived at
school with:

* a large jar with a lid
* a smaller jar (with a tight-fitting lid)
10 that would fit inside the larger one
* a spoon
* a hand towel.

Text © Jill MacGregor 2003. Illustrations © Singapore Ministry of Education 2008.

The teacher brought fresh whipping
cream, sugar, vanilla essence, ice cubes,
15 and rock salt.
First, we measured the ingredients.
We each needed:

1
*
2 cup of fresh whipping cream
* 2 tablespoons of sugar
1
20 * a few drops (no more than 4 teaspoon)
of vanilla essence
* 2 tablespoons of salt
* ice cubes.


In the smaller jars, we mixed a small
25 amount of the cream with the sugar until
the sugar dissolved. Then we added the
rest of the cream and the vanilla essence,
leaving a gap of at least 2 centimetres at
the top of the jars.


30 We screwed the lids on tightly.
Now it was time to make our
“freezers”. We broke up the ice into
small pieces and put some of it into
the bottom of the large jars. Then
35 we placed the smaller jars into the
bed of ice and added more ice to
cover them. Lastly, we sprinkled the
salt over the ice and screwed the lids
on tightly. Our ice cream makers
40 were ready.


To turn our cream into ice cream,
we had to roll our jars backwards and
forwards for four minutes, then rest
for one minute. We had to repeat
45 this five times altogether.
The ice cubes clinked against the
glass. The jars clattered on the
desks. The classroom was very noisy.


The jars grew colder and colder.
50 The ice inside them began to melt.
It turned slushy and sloshed around
in the jars. On the outside, the glass
frosted over, and we scratched our
names in the ice. Our hands started
55 to freeze, so we wrapped the jars in
towels. When our arms started to
ache, we rolled the jars with our feet.


We kept our eyes on the clock. We
wanted to open the jars and check the
60 ice cream, but the teacher said we had
to be patient. When the time was up,
we unwrapped our “freezers”.
It was hard to get the lids off.
“Remember to wipe the jars,” said the
65 teacher. “Otherwise, you might get salt
in your ice cream.”
When we opened our ice cream makers,
all the hard work was worthwhile.


The ice cream really was ice cream. It
70 was smooth and creamy. “It’s delicious,”
said Juliana.
“Mine tastes like white chocolate,” said
Shannan.
We learnt that it was important to
75 follow the recipe carefully. Emma and
Daniel had used too much cream, so they
had to drink their ice cream. It was
more like a frothy milk shake. Robert
had used too little cream, and his ice
80 cream was so solid that he needed a
sturdy spoon to get it out of the jar.
But by home time, everyone’s ice cream
had disappeared.


Next time, we decided we’d
85 add our favourite flavours –
chocolate chip, marshmallow,
strawberry, durian or …?
Try this variation if the
recipe is too rich. You
could use half yoghurt
and half cream.

illustrations by Scott Pearson


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