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malted milk balls
15 years ago
This is also sort of about "astronaut ice cream" - or freeze dried ice cream, if you care.
Well basically, I realized that malted milk balls have a very similar texture as astronaut ice cream - whoppers, in any case. This makes me crave huge chunks of malted milk... goddamn I love freeze dried ice cream. The texture, the taste...mmmn. So freaky and unnatural and delicious. I mean, 'cause ice cream ain't exactly naturally occurring in the first place [neither is a lamb vindaloo but that is neither here nor there] but then we go and we make dry ice cream. We make something that unnaturally occurs... unnaturally occur. Again. I mean, really, the whole process of from the cow's teat to the light little piece of delicious foam in your hand is kind of fucked up. I don't know, it's sort of neat. And any time two of my favorite things cross - science and food - it makes me happy like a gleeful fat child ransacking a candy factory. Except with less childhood diabetes.
Well basically, I realized that malted milk balls have a very similar texture as astronaut ice cream - whoppers, in any case. This makes me crave huge chunks of malted milk... goddamn I love freeze dried ice cream. The texture, the taste...mmmn. So freaky and unnatural and delicious. I mean, 'cause ice cream ain't exactly naturally occurring in the first place [neither is a lamb vindaloo but that is neither here nor there] but then we go and we make dry ice cream. We make something that unnaturally occurs... unnaturally occur. Again. I mean, really, the whole process of from the cow's teat to the light little piece of delicious foam in your hand is kind of fucked up. I don't know, it's sort of neat. And any time two of my favorite things cross - science and food - it makes me happy like a gleeful fat child ransacking a candy factory. Except with less childhood diabetes.
It is a similar flavor - but texture too, depending on the brand of malted milk balls. :O I'd say freeze dried ice cream is lighter and kinda... space foam-ier?, and the malted milk has the flavor of whatever makes it malted, so I just made it sound not-similar, but it really is. I tried strawberry milkshake whoppers last night and it tasted nearly exactly like the strawberry astronaut ice cream.
Might wanna not do it in an apartment complex. The unholy sound of blades tearing into the milkballs is akin to putting ball bearings in a blender >:3
I want to try to bake with them but I think they might do something weird in all that heat. I figured... malted milk ball cookies? As something easy, but I am concerned that they'll get that gross chewy texture you occasionally find in one, or just... melt away... "Yeah here's.. cookies! They did have things in them but that seems to have... disappeared."