If you're expecting a sunny 4th of July, you'll need some cool treats to help you celebrate until the evening's fireworks. Carla Emery shares her recipes for easy and delicious homemade popsicles.
These are cheap, easy, and even more fun for children than going to the store. Children like strong, sweet juices like grape and cranberry for popsicles—but when kids are hot, anything will do. My little ones enjoy goat’s milk popsicles. Popsicle making is a nice way to use leftover juices from canned fruit, too.
OF HANDLES AND MOLDS
You
can use wooden sticks for handles and sturdy small bowls or cans for
containers—work up a collection. Or buy popsicle molds; Tupperware and
Back to Basics carry them. If you have a big family or lots of small
friends, I recommend getting at least 2 molds so you can have one
freezing while they are consuming the other. You can even make parfait
popsicles by freezing a layer of one color and then a layer of another
color. My plastic holders soon got lost or fell apart, but then we
substituted sticks in a bowl or can and were fine. Fill the molds not
quite full, insert your holder, and freeze.
UNMOLDING
Don’t
let the gremlins pull the holders until you’re sure the center of the
popsicle is solidly frozen and you have loosened the sides by running
hot water over the back of the mold. Otherwise they might pull out the
holder prematurely, leaving a hole that it won’t freeze back into. You
don’t have to unmold all the popsicles at once. Just loosen as many as
you need. Refill the emptied units and return to the freezer.
BASIC FRUIT POPSICLES
Puree
1 cup any kind of fruit or a mixture of fruit and mix with 1 cup water.
Pour into your ice cube tray. When they are starting to freeze, add a
wooden stick or toothpick to each section.
PUDDING POPSICLES
Susan
Staley was in Germany when she sent me this recipe. She said, “If your
children love the Fudgsicle-type popsicle, you can easily make them.
Just make up a batch of pudding and freeze it in your popsicle molds.
They’re delicious and you can make different kinds beside chocolate.
Butterscotch is very good. In fact, any flavor of pudding your children
love hot, they’re bound to like cold in hot summer weather.”
ANY FRUIT ICE
You
could juice pomegranates or barberries or red currants, or cook and
strain quinces, or grate pineapple, or boil and pulp apples or
rhubarb—whatever you have. Sweeten to taste, add lemon juice if the
flavor needs it, and freeze.
GINGER ALE JUICE
Combine
¾ cup sugar and 2 cups water. Heat and boil 5 minutes. Cool. Add 1 cup
orange juice, ½ cup lemon juice, and 2 bottles ginger ale. Freeze.
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