Warm and pleasant greetings to all. We hope you are enjoying a great week.
There are just a couple more weeks of vacation and summer activities and it will be time for the school bell/alarm. Are you ready?
We are halfway through this year. Have you accomplished much of what you hoped for? We’re all perhaps thankful for what we’ve accomplished at the end of each day.
We must continue to feel hopeful and do good when and where we can every day.
National Ice Cream Month is celebrated the entire month of July.
People are encouraged to enjoy all forms of frozen treats including ice cream.
The International Dairy Food Association says the average American eats roughly 19 pounds, or about 4 gallons, of ice cream each year. Do you know anyone who eats more?
Not sure about my sister, who enjoys a taste every day. She only purchases the pint size. At any time, she may have up to 15 containers in her freezer. I’m not that fond of sweets and therefore ice cream is low case on my chart. I only eat ice cream for a casual treat. Occasionally, I will make ice cream in the countertop freezer. Why not celebrate back-to-school with an ice cream party?
Here’s some ice cream trivia for you (answers below):
1. What is the average licks it takes to eat a single scoop of ice cream?
2. What ingredient is added to French vanilla and frozen custard that is not typically found in regular ice cream?
3. What year was the ice cream cone invented and where did it first appear?
4. What’s the name of the phenomenon that occurs when ice cream touches the roof of your mouth and causes a sharp headache?
Here are the answers:
1. It takes around 50 licks to eat one scoop of ice cream. Try it!
2. Egg is the ingredient added in French vanilla custard. Like French vanilla?
3. Ice cream first appeared in 1904 at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Missouri. Ever been to the World’s Fair?
4. That sharp headache pain from ice cream touching the roof of your mouth is called brain freeze or ice cream headache. Ever had that headache?
We are delighted to chat with our neighbors anytime. It’s good to know some homemakers enjoy gardening and still like preserving foods.
Families enjoy the first taste of homegrown vegetables and again later from the freezer or canned jars. Corn and peas are two favorites or familiar vegetables homemakers choose the most.
Remember, blanching is a process you must do. If you have corn to freeze and you like it cream style, blanch the whole corn cob 6, 8, 10 minutes for small, medium or large ears. Cut and scrape from cob and pack in freezer containers.
You can also cut and scrape corn from the corn cob without blanching. Put a small amount of water in the sauce-pan, add cut corn and cook over low heat, stirring constantly about 10 minutes or until it thickens. Pour corn in a pan, set pan in ice water to cool. Pack in freezer containers.
Do not cook more than 2 or 3 quarts of corn at one time.
The task of freezing and canning can give you a sense of pride and accomplishment, and even more if you produced it in your own garden.
Everyday is a blessing, when we enjoy life.
