"Default User" > wrote in message
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> Christine Dabney wrote:
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>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:23:26 -0500, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
>> wrote:
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>> Why pay $4.99
>> > for a container of ice cream when I can buy it on sale for $1.99?
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>> Or you can get the ingredients for it, and make some of the best ice
>> cream that you have ever had, in amazing flavors and combinations, for
>> not more than you pay for the cheaper brands. And the quality is much
>> better.
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> That's not been my experience. Homemade ice cream is great, but the
> ingredients are expensive. Heavy cream runs about 4$ a quart (more if
> bought in smaller containers), vanilla is very expensive. You're paying
> retail for all the ingredients.
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> Brian



Here's what 1-1/2 qt ice cream will cost me -- mind you this is an estimate.
I have not estimated electricity and heated water and soap to wash the pan.
And of course, some will say 'gas money to get the milk.'

1-1/2 cups cream and 1-1/2 cups milk out of a gallon jug of raw milk I pay
$5 for. So three cups out of the gallon is at most $1.25.
Vanilla -- who knows -- I get the best I can get at Costco. 1 teaspoon is
all I use = at most $.25??
If I use 6 eggs that I pay $2.50 a dozen for -- there is $1.25. 4 or 5 eggs
would most likely do for most people.

so at most, that's $2.75 for what makes about a quart of the best doggone
ice cream I can buy. Vanilla, that is.


Dee Dee