Foods and home making

1. Make one or more cakes at home. Be sure to make the orange sponge cake. You will be delighted with it. 2. Grade the cake, using the score on page 559. (If you desire school credit for the cake, take the score to school, signed as suggested on page 30.) CHAPTER XLII FROZEN DESSERTS Can you answer these questions ? If not, look for the answers as you study this chapter. 1. Why is salt mixed with ice in freezing ice cream? 2. How much salt should be mixed with ice ? 3. Is it possible to make good ice cream withouc beating or stirring the mixture as it freezes ? 4. Why are the buckets of ice-cream freezers usually made of wood rather than of metal? 5. Why should the can of an ice-cream freezer be scalded before it is used? 6. A quart of ice cream will make eight medium servings. How much ice cream should you buy to serve twelve persons? 7. What is an easy way to crush a piece of ice for making ice cream ? What care should be taken in buying ice cream? At picnics, at parties, at tea rooms, at school cafeterias, at hotels, at restau- rants, at drug stores, and at lunch counters along auto highways, ice cream is a favorite food. Not only in public eating places, but in the home, ice cream is popular. It is fortunate that this favorite dessert is made usually of wholesome materials. It is far better to buy a cone filled with fresh, wholesome ice cream than a bottle of pop or other drink not made of fresh fruit juices. Fresh ice cream of good quality is a wholesome sweet. “ Is the ice cream fresh? ” should be asked, if possible, when buying factory-made ice cream. When ice cream becomes old, substances may form in it which are unwholesome and even dangerous. It is unwise to eat old ice cream. Ice cream should also be kept clean. The can should be clean as well as the utensils needed in dipping or serving it. If the 564 Frozen Desserts 565 place in which ice cream is sold is not kept neat and clean, it is probably not safe to eat it. Buy ice cream from a clean store or counter. Should we buy or make ice cream? The question sometimes arises whether it is cheaper to buy factory-made ice cream or to make it in the home. In counting up the cost of materials, one often finds that the materials used for making ice cream cost as much as, if not more than, the factory product. But if one com- pares the quality of the two products, the homemade is often the better. Ice cream made of real cream in the home surely tastes fine ! Whether ice cream is made in the home or bought depends upon several things which will have to be decided by the indi- vidual. The work of making ice cream in the home may be lessened if one has the necessary tools. The iceless refrigerator may also make the work of freezing ice cream easier. Even if factory ice cream is usually purchased, there are occasions when one wishes to make ice cream. Something about the tools and utensils needed for making ice cream, as well as directions for making it, follow. What is a crank ice-cream freezer? Study Figure 148 to learn the parts of the kind of ice-cream freezer most commonly used. Because the dasher or beater is turned by a crank, this is called a crank ice-cream freezer. Mixtures frozen in this kind of freezer usually become smooth and fine-grained. Because air is beaten into them as they freeze, they become light and increase in volume.