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By: Homemade Yummy Update « Anthromama

Homemade Yummy Update « Anthromama — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:43:10 +0000

[...] Yummy Update Jump to Comments A few days ago I shared the delightful discovery of a recipe for homemade Magic Shell®. I have good news to [...]

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:21:40 +0000

Goodwitch: Do I have to overnight some to you? : )

By: Goodwitch

Goodwitch — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:18 +0000

Aaah! I love you! I can’t wait until Coconut Oil is once again available in NZ. (We have been told that Global Demand is at an all-time high and therefore we don’t get any…what are we, chopped liver??)

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:25:51 +0000

Szilvi: It is indeed a form of marriage therapy : ) I can’t say I’ve ever been attracted to a vegan diet. I think the Nourishing Traditions diet has a lot going for it, if you have access to raw dairy and organic meat.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:58 +0000

Heh, yesterday as I was walking down the street, I remembered the brand name of the shop-bought version of this in UK when I was a kid – Ice Magic! We loved it!

By: Szilvi

Szilvi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:05:59 +0000

Henitsirk,
the saddest thing of ALL, is that the other day my husband announced, that even after Timothy is off the diet, he might stay vegan, for calorie intake and aging issues. Maybe you could talk some sense into him. That secretly eating ice-cream with your wife after the kids are all in bed is very good marriage-maintanace?!

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:01:08 +0000

Julie: I haven’t tried it yet! This weekend I will report back, as I have been having serious ice cream cravings with the warming weather.

Nutiva is definitely unhydrogenated. In the summer it gets very soft and even melts on the shelf. We put a spoonful in our oatmeal instead of or with butter, or in pancakes.

By: Julie Cancio Harper

Julie Cancio Harper — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:14:38 +0000

Ahh . . . I see it in your comment and found it online:
http://nutiva.com/products/10_coconut.php

I see in Nutiva’s description that it is unhydrogenated and I’m getting very interested . . . Did it work? Was it good?

By: Julie Cancio Harper

Julie Cancio Harper — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:32:29 +0000

One of my hobbies is soapmaking (hot process from scratch using lye and oils) and as a soaper I learned that there are different kinds of coconut oil on the market.

92 degree coconut oil is solid (at room temperatures up to 92 degrees, hence the name) because it’s hydrogenated, with a consistency a bit like Crisco.

76 degree coconut oil is semi-solid to soupy at room temperature (at least it is in my kitchen).

There is a third kind called fractionated coconut oil, but I’m not sure what that’s like. I’ve only used 76 and 92 degree coconut oil.

I had previously looked at the ingredients on Magic Shell and I think I remember seeing coconut oil as an ingredient. At the time, I wondered: Which coconut oil would they use? I guessed the 76 degree because it should stay liquid-ish at room temperature but would harden on contact with frigid ice cream. . .

What kind do you use?

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:21:10 +0000

Oh my goodness! I used to love this when I was a kid. I have forgotten the brand name in UK but it came in all sorts of no-doubt-incredibly-bad-for-you flavours which tasted lovely! We were so excited to watch the chocolate harden. I’d never even heard of coconut oil before, I will have to seek it out. I know a certain small person who would love this.