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What is ice cream?

Ice cream is simply a frozen dessert made from

• milk and/or cream
• sweeteners (like sugar)
• combined with flavoursome ingredients (like vanilla beans, nuts or fruits).

Besides the ingredients above, one of the most important components of ice cream is _____ ?

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we learnt to make ice cream today. it's very easy indeed, but i doubt i'd try to make my own again. unless it's a group thing, that'd be more fun.

recipe for coconut ice cream (enough for two):

200ml milk

200ml coconut milk

50g sugar

me and my partner chose to do coconut since most chose vanilla and chocolate. for vanilla, the added ingredient is of course vanilla beans. did you know that vanilla pods are from an orchid plant? and where does one buy vanilla pods ah?

for chocolate, we're given hershey's. there's no fixed recipe since it's really up to the ice cream 'maker' how he or she wants it to turn out. apparently, pouring all the contents of the syrup into the mix isn't the way to go, since more sugars means the mix becomes harder to freeze. so it's the same if you want to add alcohol into the mix.

many seemed to find our ice cream salty. i suspect it's cos they ate it after trying out the sweeter vanilla and chocolate.

do you know the answer to the above question?