Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Milk popsicle

This Popsicle mold  was lying around in my kitchen for many years till I found a lot of interesting popsicles via  pinterest this summer. I thought I should make a nostalgic post if I can prepare a milk popsicle, popularly known as paal ice while I was growing up. I just love this ice very much and hubby too wanted me to re-create one for us:)  I am not sure if my recipe is the original one, as I have never asked anyone about this. But I assumed that this humble pal ice would have been made of lesser expensive ingredients as it was sold for fairly a lesser price at that time (this would be the least expensive one in that icecream cart and every kid could afford this in their pocket money). So I prepared a leaner version using cornstarch to give the creamy texture and it was successful. The popsicle tasted almost similar to the good old days and we enjoyed every lick:) If needed anyone can replace cornstarch with condensed milk and nuts to get a kulfi texture.
My cute little popsicle molds.

Pinky popsicle is always mine:)

Ingredients: (four Popsicle)
Milk - 1 cup
water - 1/2 cup
sugar - 6 tsp
corn starch - 1 tsp
water - 1/4 cup

Method:
Mix corn starch with water and cook it in 1/4 cup water. Stir continuously till it starts forming a thick mass. It should look very creamy.
Boil the milk with 1/2 cup water. Switch off.
Add the corn starch, sugar to milk and dissolve thoroughly.
After cooling completely pour in popsicle molds, freeze for 6-8 hours.
To take the ice out: Keep the popsicle mold upside down in warm water for few seconds and take out.

Serve as dessert.

Some more ideas:
I used some small dessert cups to make popsicles.
Pour the popsicle liquid in the cups, cover them with aluminum foil and insert an icecream stick through it. Freeze as usual. I used a kebab skewer as I didn't have icecream stick at that time. I cut it into 3 and it worked fine for me:)



10 comments:

Babitha said...

soo easy to make,will make them for my kids

Unknown said...

Love these milk popsicle ;) long back we used to get this in India and I used to be crazy over them

Priya Suresh said...

Makes me nostalgic, seriously i want to make some..drooling here..

divya said...

Tempting and flavorful,clicks are beautiful.

prethika said...

wow lovely milk ice ...remembers my childhood back

Unknown said...

I'm not having cornstarch so shall i replace with cornflour?if so how many teaspoon i need to add?expecting your reply.

Unknown said...

Hi,I'm not having cornstarch so shall i use cornflour?if so how many teaspoon i need to add?expecting your reply...

Unknown said...

Hi,I'm not having cornstarch so shall i use cornflour?if so how many teaspoon i need to add?expecting your reply...

Vikis Kitchen said...

Hi Jasmine , You can try with same amount of corn flour or maida (all purpose flour) after dry roasting for a few seconds. I haven't checked yet, but I am sure they will taste same.

Unknown said...

Thanks

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