Stellar Reader P4 Making Ice Cream

or jar about halfway with ice. Add a generous amount of salt.

In a traditional hand-crank or "coffee can" method, salt is added to the ice surrounding the cream mixture. As the story explains, salt lowers the freezing point of water. This causes the ice to melt, drawing heat out of the cream mixture much faster than ice alone could. This rapid heat transfer is what turns liquid milk into solid ice cream. Stellar Reader P4 Making Ice Cream

Name one historical way people made frozen desserts before electric freezers. A: They packed snow or ice around a metal container of cream and salt, then turned a hand crank to churn it. or jar about halfway with ice