COLIN MACLEAN: Elbow grease and ice cream

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COLIN MACLEAN: Elbow grease and ice cream

Show of hands, readers – have you ever made ice cream?

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Like, really made it?

I’m not talking about dumping a mixture into a machine you ordered off Amazon.

I’m talking about an old-school, hand-cranked metal drum spinning around in a wooden bucket. The kind that takes prodigious amounts of coarse salt, ice and elbow grease.

I’m happy to say, I have. It’s a core memory from childhood.

My grandmother had an ancient ice cream maker and every once in a blue moon, we’d break it out of storage to make a batch for a special occasion.

It was always the same recipe that made what was, I believe, the best........

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