Last night I made strawberry ice cream using the Donvier
turn-the-handle-every-three-minutes unit. It was okay but it's a
nuisance, albeit a minor one, to have to stand there during the waiting
time (between turning the handle three times) and it may not have been
as it should have been because I'd had the chiller container stored on
its side (GASP!) in the freezer. Book said that could make for less
success. Whatever.

I just finished a batch of chocolate ice cream (chocolated by 1/2 cup of
Hershey's syrup ‹ shoot me!) done in the Waring Ice Cream Parlor
electric maker that requires salt and ice. The machine is 22 years old
and likely unused in 18 years. It quit a couple times but then would go
again. Might have to have Brother John The Fix-It Man have a look-see.

Scoff if you will, but it's pretty tasty stuff -- heavy cream and half
and half, no eggs, in this one, along with the chocolate and some
vanilla bean-steeped cheap cognac passing as vanilla extract.
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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