{"id":1554,"date":"2012-07-18T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-07-18T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:56:31","slug":"its-national-ice-cream-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2012\/07\/18\/its-national-ice-cream-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s National Ice Cream Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-bottom: 8px;background-color: #ffffff;text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;font: 12px\/1.7 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;letter-spacing: normal;color: #333333;padding-top: 8px\">July 18th is National Ice Cream Day! Celebrate by enjoying a few scoops of your favorite flavor or by<strong> making your own ice cream at home<\/strong>. Here is a simple recipe. You can change it up by adding a little chocolate syrup, a few chocolate chips, or using a flavoring other than vanilla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-bottom: 8px;background-color: #ffffff;text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;font: 12px\/1.7 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;letter-spacing: normal;color: #333333;padding-top: 8px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;border-style: none;padding: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/06\/mixinbag-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"mixinbag\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>In a quart size zipper baggie, combine\u2026<br \/>\n1 cup of whole milk or half and half<br \/>\n2 tablespoons of sugar<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-bottom: 8px;background-color: #ffffff;text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;font: 12px\/1.7 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;letter-spacing: normal;color: #333333;padding-top: 8px\">In a gallon size zipper baggie\u2026<br \/>\nFill \u00bd way with ice cubes<br \/>\nAdd 1\/3 cup of rock salt (if you don\u2019t have rock salt you can use table salt or kosher salt)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-bottom: 8px;background-color: #ffffff;text-indent: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;font: 12px\/1.7 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;letter-spacing: normal;color: #333333;padding-top: 8px\">Seal the small baggie carefully and place the inside of the large bag. Seal the large bag and shake the bags until you can see the mixture thickening (about 5 minutes.) It will be cold to hold, so you may want to carefully pass it back and forth between yourself and a partner.\u00a0 Remove the small baggie and wipe the top off (to remove salt water,) unzip and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your own ice cream at home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246,381,459],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ice-cream","tag-recipe","tag-summer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s National Ice Cream Day! - Fredericksburg Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s National Ice Cream Day! 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