The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-19

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to make these as simple as I can.
Get a bag of rock salt from the
grocer and about twenty-five pounds
of ice from your iceman. When the
cream is ready for the freezer, lay a
block of ice upon several thicknesses
of stout sacking or upon bit of
whole, clean carpeting. Fold this
over the ice and pound through the
covering with a mallet or wooden
rolling pin until the ice is broken
almost as fine as hailstones. Put
the cream into the freezer and pack
alternate layers of salt and pounded
ice in the space between the inner
and outer vessels. Pack down hard
and do not spare the rock salt. Fas-
ten down the lid of the freezer, cover
it with the pounded ice and salt and
wrap a very thick cloth over all, ex-
Guiding the air entirely.
This is for self-freezing cream:
Make a custard of a quart of un-
skinned milk and six eggs, three
cupfuls of sugar and vanilla extract
to taste. This last is put in after the
custard is made. Heat the milk
nearly to boiling and pour upon the
eggs beaten light and then mixed
with the sugar. Beat one minute and
return to the fire in a double boiler.
Stir about fifteen minutes until it is
as thick as cream. 1t is a wise pre-
caution to drop into the milk a bit
of soda no bigger than a pea, to keep
it from curdling in cooking. Watch
your custard closely and take it off
at the crucial moment lest it gran
ulate. Let it get perfectly cold and
stir in three cupfuls of rich sweet
cream. 1t is now ready for freezing.
l am assuming that this is for Sun
days dinner. The custard should be
made on Saturday and left in the ice
Do not add the cream until just be-
fore the custard goes into the freezer
Beat very hard at the last-say for
five minutes-and turn directly into
THE freezer. Do this before break
fast. Leave the freezer and contents
snugly packed out of sight, under th'
carpet or sacking-or best Of all, OF
=, an old blanket-for one hour The
remove the blanket and wipe off tn
y top of the inner vessel that no sal
. may find its way into the cream
You will find within the freezer
when opened, a thick coating of frc
, zen custard adhering to the sides
With a thin wooden paddle or a lon
= carving knife dislodge this and leav
not a bit clinging to the side. Do
. quickly and rapidly with a Ion
), wooden paddle. Beat and stir tn
: congealing custard for five minute
i as hard and fast as you can. This
Il all the real labor required by tn
4 process, and upon this depends tn
q smoothness of the cream. Turn o
- the brine from the outer pail and r
=. pack with new supplies of cracke
. ice and salt. Wrap up the pail an
the top covering of ice and salt
the old blanket and set away in
IS cool corner.
C Now go to church with an cas-
l. mind. When you come home, yC
II may look at the outer pail. Shou
G the brine have accumulated so ia
n as to float the freezer, turn it off al
Y fill up with ice and salt Do not tai
ID the top from the inner vessel UNI
you are ready to serve the dessel
Then dip the inner vessel into war
mot hot water, or, better still, viii
of towel wrung out in boiling wat
es about the lower part of the freez
lis after taking it out of the briny de
W. and wiping dry Take off the lid a
en- invert upon a chilled dish.
ed When I wrote the recipe for sc
Ike freezing ice cream, forty years as
IN | said of the result of this process
er, you will turn out a solid colur
in of cream, firm, close-grained and
alt smooth as velvet to the tongue.
Having proved the truth of the
sertion times without number sir
then, my repetition is confden
he emphatic I have made what
ut know as Sunday ice cream" HI
wo dreds of times and with never a f,
of ure. I subjoined to the formula
m iginally published in Comm
es. Sense in the Household" the reass
id ance: you need not devote fife
or minutes in all to the business af
a the custard is made" This likew
zen I reiterate after twoscore years
ed practice.
id There are modern patent freez
to warranted to do the work inside
It'll fifteen minutes. Make your choice
it to what patent you will use, In {
lie of them the frozen cream may
lto packed down and kept for no