Grandma Club

Canning Party Downloads

The grannies are gearing up to go pick some peaches this weekend, but in the meantime, we recommend you take advantage of these adorable, and downloadable, invites for your very own canning party. Summer is prime time canning season; so take advantage of it and invite some friends!

Ice Cream Social, Missing Recipes + Downloads

Here are the missing recipes and free downloads of not only some recipe cards, but blank ice cream social invites. The ice cream scoop and speech bubble on the recipe cards are left bank so you or your guests can color the scoop to relate to their ice cream and the speech bubble is where the flavor goes. Donovan did a great job making these. For the recipes, she watched the Good Eats episodes on ice cream many, many times. You can download them directly by following the following links:

Ice Cream Social blank recipe cards, 460kb [download pdf]
Ice Cream Social blank invites, 544kb [download pdf]

Mint Chocolate Chip Recipe
3 cups half & half
1 cup heavy cream
9 ounces sugar
8 egg yolks
2 teaspoons mint extract
20 Andes mints, chopped

Bring the half & half and cream up to 170 degrees in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally.Whisk the egg yolks until lightened. Slowly add in the sugar while whisking. Your sugar and egg mixture should reach a very light and creamy consistency, and should make thick strings when you lift the whisk out of the bowl. Add the warmed cream mixture a little bit at a time to the eggs, stirring constantly. When the eggs are up to the temperature of the cream, you may put it all together back in the medium saucepan and return to 170 degrees. Remove from heat and add the mint. Let the mixture rest for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator in a covered container before churning. Add the mints when mostly frozen in the churn.

Cinnamon Ice Cream
3 cups half & half
1 cup heavy cream
9 ounces sugar
8 egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons cinnamon

Bring the half & half and cream up to 170 degrees in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally.Whisk the egg yolks until lightened. Slowly add in the sugar while whisking. Your sugar and egg mixture should reach a very light and creamy consistency, and should make thick strings when you lift the whisk out of the bowl. Add the warmed cream mixture a little bit at a time to the eggs, stirring constantly. When the eggs are up to the temperature of the cream, you may put it all together back in the medium saucepan and return to 170 degrees. Remove from heat and add the cinnamon and vanilla. Let the mixture rest for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator in a covered container before churning according to your maker’s instructions.

Be a Granny

We've gotten a lot of comments/emails saying you want to be a granny or want to get your friends together to do these projects. We love hearing you guys are inspired by our projects; getting others involved in these type of activities is the major reason we started recording out projects on this blog. We decided to create a little badge so you can show your granny dedication. If you and your friends participate in grandma club-like activities, become an honorary granny! Copy and paste the code in the box below to add the Honorary Granny button to your website or blog.

<a href="http://16sparrows.typepad.com/grandmaclub/" title="LWA"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3646/3464529700_6fa6a70178_o.gif" width="144" height="115" alt="Grandma Club" /></a>

We also have this code in the sidebar.
Keep tuned, we are working on project-based badges, ala girlscouts.

Free Download: Canning Labels

For your canning pleasure - labels complete with the info from this past canning experience available as a free download. We also made some blank ones for you to fill-in with your own canning adventures.

These were designed to go on the lid of the jars. We opted to place stickers on the lids rather than the jar itself to allow for the jar to be reused for other things. The lids should be used only once (for canning purposes), so we figured it was a good spot.

Click on the links below to start downloading PDFs of these labels. It is a sheet of 16 labels, with the circles sized at just under 2".

Canning Labels, December Sauces - 644kb
Canning Labels, Blank (for you to fill-in) - 592kb

Hope you enjoy them!