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You can probably guess from the name of the website that I favor home made ice cream and it seems that now, I have  a really good reason as it turns out that store-bought ice cream can kill you! Ok maybe that was a bit drastic but it could be true. I was reading the news headlines in Google today and ran across a recall of the Dove Ice Cream Company's product, Carmel Pecan Perfection which sound like a heavenly name and it'll certainly get you there if you're allergic to peanuts. According to newspaper, The Daily Citizen, as submitted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, there was one batch of ice cream, lot number 931AB5YN07, that got made with an additional ingredient not listed on the ingredients label: peanuts.  From the newspaper article:

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Welcome to Ice Cream Maker Basics. This is a blog about ice cream and making homemade ice cream. Basically it all started with me being stranded in Japan and missing all of my favorite flavors from the US. Being a do it myself type, I had the folks send over a hand cranked ice cream freezer and have been having fun making my own ice cream. I also figured since there are blogs about pizza and tacos why not ice cream. So please enjoy my ice cream maker blog.

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