CJ Chicago Johnny’s Lemon Italian Ice & Chocolate Ice: Recipe & Techniques Beginning notes: Ingredients for lemon Italian ice: 5 Lg or 6 Md lemons with peels 2 Tbl raw honey 1/4 cup agave 3/4 cup ice 3 3/4 cup water 3/4 cup cane sugar • If you grew up in or around Chicago you are familiar with Lemon Italian Ice & Chocolate Ice. When you travel through old Italian immigrant neighborhoods like Cicero & Berwyn you still see remnants of the classic Chicago Ingredients for chocolate ice: summer favorite. 6 Tbl unsweetened cocoa powder • Lemon Italian Ice & Chocolate Ice are 1 tea molasses both great treats to follow a heavy meal 1 1/2 cup sugar like deep dish pizza or pasta. 3 cups water • You can make this dish by hand: freeze in a shallow dish/tray & scrape with a fork to fluff/flake your ice every half hour. This process is very labor intensive & turns out to be more solid than using an ice cream maker. Recipe for lemon ice: Peel your lemons shallow (don’t peel too deep or your Lemon Italian Ice will be bitter) with a potato peeler. Add your peels & all other ingredients to a deep pan & turn your stove to medium heat. When your mix comes to a low boil turn your heat down to low & simmer for 10 minutes, then turn your heat off. Juice your lemons (you should end up with just over 1 cup of lemon juice, if you do not you should juice more lemons until you have just over 1 cup of lemon juice). Once your lemon ice has simmered ten minutes turn off the heat & pour in lemon juice & ice. Let your mix sit until cooled, then refrigerate. Once chilled in your refrigerator run your mix in an ice cream maker until frozen & fluffy. Can in Ball brand Mason Jars or other freezeable containers. Recipe for the chocolate ice: Bring all of your ingredients to a medium heat & turn the heat off once your mix starts to steam or bubble. Cool until room temperature & then refrigerate. Once chilled in the refrigerator run your mix in an ice cream maker until frozen & fluffy. Can in Ball brand Mason Jars or other freezeable containers. * To use your ice cream maker; pour your ice mixture into your inner container, put on your lid, attach your motor & turn it on. Then add ice about halfway up the bucket, salt heavily, then add more ice to fill the bucket & salt heavily again. www.ChicagoJohnnys.com