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Ordering Disorder
with Chris Jordan
Ordering Disorder is about making every day run more smoothly in small specific ways like quick, easy, and nutritious recipes, tips for prepareing lunches, and organizing tips, which add up to big changes
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Summer Living Recipe: Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag
Categories: Cooking, Entertaining, Food, summer living
I love this recipe for a few reasons. It is easy to make. The kids love it, but seriously who doesn’t love ice cream. And it is a project that kills some time. Perfect for when the kids are driving you up the wall on those long summer days or when they have friends over and you hear the dreaded, “We’re bored.”
Aside from the rock salt, you probably already have everything you need at your house right now.
You will need, per serving:
1 cup cream, or milk, or chilled canned coconut milk
1tsp vanilla (omit if using coconut milk)
2tsp sugar
4 cups ice
4T rock salt, or just sprinkle some into the bag like I did
Optional add-ins:
mini chocolate chips
drizzle in peanut butter
cocoa powder (omit vanilla)
(Not photographed, the can of chilled coconut milk I used to make some vegan ice cream.)
First thing you want to do is measure your milk and pour it into a quart sized ziploc bag.
Measure and pour in your teaspoon of vanilla.
Measure and pour in your two teaspoons of sugar.
Fill your gallon sized ziploc bag with about 4 cups of ice. Add your rock salt to the bag and shake it up a bit.
Zip your bag of milk and put it into the bag of ice. Seal the bag of ice.
Let the shaking begin. Shake, shake, shake…. shake, shake, shake….
Shake your booty.
When you notice that the milk has hardened, remove the bag Clean it off with some cold water before opening the quart sized bag to eat. Unless you like salty ice cream. In that case ignore my advice. Also, seek professional help.
Then like a miracle, one that rivals the changing of water to wine, your bag of milk has become the best tasting, creamy ice cream.
I suppose if tequila was in there, salty icecream might be OK.
Glad you posted this, you mentioned the baggie-icecream a couple posts back and I was like huh?
Chris says: I got a few emails about it and figured other people probably didn’t know the recipe either. Now go make some.
Brigitte | June 13th, 2008 at 9:30 am
This “recipe” was actually used as a lab experiment in my classs last year. Teachign ESL science to 15-17 year olds, I wanted to make suer the students could follow instructions before letting them have anything resembling chemicals. It was popular with the “cooking club” and my grade 7/8 crowd too.
Sarah | June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I do this as a chemistry lab for my students, and they LOVE it!
It’s sort of a rite of passage now; each class that comes through asks if they will make ice cream.
Damsel | June 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I did this in high school chemistry once but we used a small coffee can inside of a larger coffee can and sealed them with tape. Then we rolled the cans across the floor. Same results though.
K | June 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Soooo excited for this one — I wonder if we can add some food coloring to make it pink. Since you know, pink is THE best color.
Chris says: I don’t see why not!
Nataly | June 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
ooh i was wondering too about the baggie option! we have an ice cream maker but that doesnt seem NEARLY as much fun (or mess free). very exciting! i will be making the chocolate coconut vegan icecream THIS WEEKEND! because now i know how! SO EXCITED! (i love ice cream but dairy does not love me, new yummy options are always exciting!)
Kate | June 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
For those of us who are clueless about the cooking…where does one buy rock salt?? My kids will love making this! Thanks for the recipe.
Chris says: They have it at Target and Walmart right next to the ice cream makers and snow cone makers. I bet that have it at the grocery store too. When you see it buy a few bags (they are small) because soon they will have out winter things like snow shovels.
Mary Beth | June 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I’m so happy you did something like this! My husband doesn’t want me to get an ice cream attachement for my kitchen-aid b/c he says I’ll use it once or twice and then never again like I do w/my kitchen-aid (never mind I’m using it a lot lately). Maybe he’s right. Maybe he’s not. BUT since even I, an idiot at times:), can surely make something like this I will and THANK YOU!
Mishel | June 15th, 2008 at 4:41 am
[...] Why, yes, it is a snow cone. What? I’m just keeping it real for you. Also, my children think that snow cones are the best thing since sliced bread, or ice cream in a ziploc bag. [...]
Mom Cooks: Summer Recipes - Ordering Disorder - Work It, Mom! | June 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
um it really did not work out for us i dont know what went wrong we shook it up and everything correctly i think we did not shake for a long enough time, put on your website the needed time for shaking so that the ice cream works, we shook the bag for like thirty minutes and it was still pure liquid
Chris says: I have no idea what you did wrong. But if I had to guess I would say you forgot to add the rock salt. It doesn’t take anywhere near 30 minutes for it to turn into icecream.
Sadie | June 30th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
[...] Homemade ice cream in a bag! I’m going to buy some rock salt to keep on hand — this will be a great rainy day activity for the summer. [...]
Crumbs, 7/5/08 | chickinthekitchen.com | July 5th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
[...] I saw the idea to make your own ice cream without an ice cream maker on Chris’ blog, Ordering Disorder. [...]
chickinthekitchen.com » Plastic Bag Ice Cream | July 24th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
You mean…I can make ice cream without an ice cream maker?! Yayyy.
Hillary | July 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Made this with my high school ESE science students for transfer of thermal energy. They love it. Will be making s’mores for property changes! Now no more whining about where their lab fees are going! And, those that didn’t pay had to write a report on ice cream, but didn’t make it. Bet they will pay before the s’mores!
rita kaplan | November 13th, 2008 at 3:55 pm