Homemade Ice Cream 冰淇淋

It's one of those things that people don't do much of anymore, but it is well worth the time especially on a hot late spring evening. We made vanilla ice cream with the fresh vanilla we bought on our cruise destination. Making ice cream requires a little planning ahead, all the heated ingredients need to cool down and gel before they are put into the ice cream maker. The ice cream maker itself needs to be put into the freezer for a while. The flavor when it is finished is much better than anything I tasted in a store.

One nice thing about ice cream is that it is popular around the world, with some allowances for differences in flavors and types. The ices 刨冰 with fruit, beans and sugar cane juice 甘蔗 汁 are one of my favorites from the Chinese speaking world.

For those of you regular visitors, I'll try to update on a more regular basis but busyness with writing kept me preoccupied the latter part of this spring.