From Milk to Ice Cream

From Milk to Ice Cream

A Sweet Treat Ice cream is cold. Ice cream is sweet. Ice cream is a yummy treat. Many people love to eat ice cream. Throughout the world, ice cream is a popular dessert. Ice cream is made from milk that comes from cows. The cows live on dairy farms.

At the Farm Cows need a lot of food and water to make milk. They nibble on grass, and they eat hay and grains. Cows also drink plenty of water each day. Dairy farmers give their cows all the food and water they need. A healthy cow can fill about one hundred glasses of milk in one day. Cows are milked twice a day. On small farms, farmers milk the cows by hand. On big farms, machines do all the milking. The milk is pumped into special tanks. The tanks keep the milk clean, cool, and fresh.

On the Truck Trucks pick up the milk from the farms. The trucks have huge tanks that keep the milk cold. The trucks take the milk to factories where some of it is made into ice cream.

At the Factory At an ice cream factory, the milk is separated into cream and skim milk. Then the cream and milk are put together with sugar and other things. This makes an ice cream mix. The ice cream mix is heated to kill any germs. A machine makes the mix smooth. Then the mix goes to another tank to cool.

Another machine whips the mix. This makes the ice cream taste rich and creamy. Then it is time to add flavorings, such as chocolate or vanilla. Treats such as fruit, nuts, and cookies can go in, too.