Five-Minute Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 cup (125ml) milk, cream, or half and half
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (or other flavouring)
• 6 tablespoons salt
• Enough ice to fill the gallon-sized bag halfway
• 1 gallon-sized Ziploc bag
• 1 pint-sized Ziploc bag

Method:

1. Fill the gallon-sized bag halfway with ice.  Add the salt (ordinary table salt will work but salt that has larger crystals, such as kosher salt or rock salt, will work much better).  Mix the salt around in the ice and set aside.
2. Pour the milk, sugar, and vanilla extract into a bowl or other container and mix.
3. Carefully pour the milk mixture into the pint-sized bag.
4. Close the bag, making sure it is completely sealed.
5. Put the pint bag into the gallon bag.
6. Make sure the pint bag gets buried in the ice. Seal the gallon bag. Shake the bags vigorously for five minutes. You might want to use a towel to hold them, since they will be very cold and slippery from condensation.
7. Remove the pint bag, open it up and grab a spoon.