Letter Of The Week - R Is For Rootbeer Floats

This week we've been working with the letter R. Today Tristan made a rootbeer float. But, because you need vanilla ice cream for rootbeer floats, and we didn't have any, we made it instead.
So first, we had to make the vanilla ice cream.

What you'll need...

1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/2 Cup Milk
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
6 Tablespoons Rock Salt (I didn't have any rock salt so we just used regular salt)
1 Gallon Size Ziplock Bag
2 Pint Size Ziplock Bags
Ice

1. Fill the gallon size ziplock bag with ice, about 1/2 full and add the salt and seal it.


2. Mix the sugar, milk and vanilla in the small pint size bag and seal it.
Then place it in the 2nd pint size bag.
I recommend this because, the first time we tried this, the pint size bag broke, and the ice cream was very salty. So it's just an extra precaution.







3. Open up the large bag and put the small inside and seal the large bag



4. Shake the bag and you'll see the mixture in the small bags turn into ice cream.
(It'll take about 5 minutes of shaking)



Open the small bag, and place in a bowl





Tristan had to try a bite


Yummy!

Anyway....

Time to make the rootbeer float.
Put about half of the mixed ice cream in the bottom of a cup


Then pore some rootbeer in the cup


Then put the remaining ice cream in the cup.
Drink and enjoy.