We all scream for ice cream

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What do you do when your summertime program presenter cancels on you? Well, if you are Daingerfield Librarian Earline Walton, you make ice cream!

All summer, Walton had been planning on Cass County Extension Agent Michelle Burchett coming on Aug. 21 to teach the children about making ice cream in a bag. Unfortunately, Burchett had a meeting that rendered her unable to come. Instead of panicking, as many would have done, Walton went to the internet, and decided to teach the project herself.

“I figured we could still do this as an activity for the kids,” said Walton. And the kids seemed to enjoy all the cold, creamy fun. Armed with ice, ice cream salt, baggies, and premade bags of condensed milk and vanilla mixtures, Walton and the Friends of the Daingerfield Public Library gave each child in attendance, all 33 of them, the opportunity to make their own ice cream.

The children laughed, kneaded, twisted, turned, and pounded their baggies in an effort to turn their milk mixture into a sweet, cold treat. They all seemed to succeed, and the consensus seemed to be that it was really good. (The recipe Walton used for the “ice cream in a bag” can be found in the “Cooking with The Bee” section on the Editorial page.)

The Friends of the Daingerfield Public Library will host one more event on Thursday, July 28. The Texas Department of Transportation will present “Fun with Tex and Dot” at 10 a.m. The program will be free of charge, and everyone is welcome to join them at the Morris County Annex.

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