Bournvita Ice-cream..

I'm a nocturnal person, probably to do with being born at midnight :) But what can I say.. I saw a nice comment by my brother Vinod on my blog, and that got me thinking... hmmm...

This post is dedicated to him, Veena and most of all my Periamma (Vinod and Veena's mom), who's no more with us... but left us with many sweet memories.. to cherish and love...

Right, now that the mushy stuff is over, let's get on with the story, shall we? You might wonder what is Bournvita ice-cream. I mean, everyone in India knows Bournvita .. the health drink with that nice song "tan ki shakti, man ki shakti bournvitaa!!" but ice-cream from Bournvita?? Well, this was the brainwave that struck Veena, Shilpu and me at Ghatkopar one day. So we decided to experiment, with help from Vinod of course. Now, I'm going the Project Management way to show you what all happened....

Project: To make professional quality ice-cream from Bournvita and milk.

Resources: Vinod, Veena, Shilpu and Me, a large steel pataram (vessel), spoon, rusty old egg beater.

Ingriedients: Milk, Bournvita powder, Sugar and Ice.

Technology: Refrigerator (not frost free)

Sprint 1 : We mix Bournvita powder (4 tbsps - it's a wonder we didn't get pasted for this), 2 cups milk, 5 tbps sugar and blend all this nicely in that steel vessel. We put it in the fridge to set. Hours later, no effect, its cold but not set. The bulb blinks on, someone realises it sets in the freezer not the lower part of the fridge, so we put it in the fridge.

We get up at 3am in the morning to check our ice-cream (if our parents used the same motivation for us to study, we would be NASA scientists today), it sets, but like well, ice.. impossible to take out or eat.

Sprint 2: we defrost sprint 1 and decide to put it in ice tray instead (I know, I know.. how the hell is that going to make a difference, but to be fair, we were only 8 then). Bad result, plus a fair amount of questioning from Periamma as to what exactly we were doing poking our heads into the fridge so many times. We decide to do this another day and dump the stuff before someone finds out the wasted milk and Bournvita.

Sprint 3: Introduction of new resource, Sriram (Vinod and Veena's cousin). He gets the bright idea to mix salt with the Milk-Bournvita-Sugar concoction so that it sets like ice-cream. Now that I think of it, good idea, but bad proportions. We mix salt, nobody has a clue how much so the measurement is random. Result is good setting, it does resemble ice-cream but one spoon in the mouth and everyone goes.... BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! It's salty ice-cream!!!!!!!

That did it, we abandoned attempts to do any ice-cream business then and decided that the 5 buck ice-cream at Tequila bar was better than all the effort to actually make one.

I can tell so many other things at Ghatkopar, the best part was that Periamma was the coolest parent I ever knew. She was fun, strict, but had a nice way of being strict, and basically let us make messes and well be kids...

Life is complicated now, but Bournvita Ice-cream always brings a smile to my face.. :))

P.S:- Veensey, we missed doing that dance the last time you were here... ;-)