Ice Cream is Good - Part 1

Ice Cream is Good - Part 1

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Ice Cream is Good - Part 1 by Gnerbil Firewood

I'm a tinker by nature, like most of us Gnomes. I love to fiddle around with things and make new things out of them. Now I often find myself in the kitchen tinkering around with my dinner. The wife doesn't usually like what I make and she doesn't usually let me work the oven.

So I went into the basement and started thinking of a way to make my own food. I tried to think of what I would want to eat if I could have anything at all. I figured it would be something sweet, obviously. I also wanted something

cold to make the heat in my workroom seem less oppressive. Now, I get a lot of things sent to me by my lunatic nephew, Brinewillow. He likes to wander into dangerous places and pick stuff up from the natives and send them to me. A few days into thinking up a new way to make my cold treats, a package arrived. The young halfling that delivered it was happy to get rid of it. That's pretty reasonable considering that it was cold and had a chilly mist pouring out of it.

Well, the note said that it was the hide of some beast called a Gelidran. I've never seen one of these

things, but they must be an amazing sight. Even dead, this things icy hide was incredibly cold. Now, you can only imagine how this sent my tinker's mind into a frenzy.

I gathered up an old metal container I had and lined it with this hide, but the metal eventually froze and wasn't very useful. I found, however, that an old unfired medium-sized container would hold up better under the low temperatures.

Then I found a boot gasket that one of my contacts had just sewed up for me from the severed tentacle of something he called a Feran

and fitted that on the thing to prevent spillage. Now I had a very cold container that I could use to make my treats!

I started by putting all sorts of things in there and stirring them around with a heavy spoon I borrowed from the kitchen while the wife was out. I started to find some interesting concoctions, but stirring them up was quickly becoming more work than the results were worth. So I started tinkering around again.

All I had to do was add a couple of sprockets and a couple of metal rods to do the stirring and hook them

up to one of my steam-powered pistons. Now all I have to do is throw tasty stuff into the thing and it will stir itself up!

Of course this is where the trouble started. I soon learned that when I chose the stuff to stir up and freeze the results weren't very tasty. Eventually I broke down and brought my new device upstairs. The wife is a great cook and without her help I knew I wasn't going to be able make anything tasty. The only thing that I had to fear was that she'd try to feed me into the thing.

It took some cajoling on my part, but soon Brunelda was

thinking up all sorts of tasty things! The best ones were made with cream and some ice from Velious. Soon enough that's all we were making in the thing, so we named it Gnerbil Firewood's Amazing Ice Cream Churning Device. I suppose, as usual, folks will change the name...

The wife hates it when I give out her recipes, but since this is my device, I'm going to tell you some of the best stuff to put into it. It's probably best if you have someone that knows how to cook do this or you'll probably regret the way it tastes.

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