Cooks and Crafts: Elementary Ice Cream

Elementary Ice Cream starts the weekly series of recipes and crafts Fourth Estate will do every week with "Cooks and Crafts" (photo by Amy Rose).

Sherlock Holmes was an essential part of my childhood, as important to my upbringing as learning the alphabet and table manners. My mom would read to me from a beat up tome containing dozens of his and Dr. Watson’s often thrilling adventures.  From the mysteries on the moors of Baskerville Hall to the strange murders caused by a “Speckled Band,” I was hooked. 

As I got older, I started watching the film adaptations of these great stories: spellbound by the performances from the likes of Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee. This continued through to the modern surge of interest in Sherlock Holmes with the Guy Richie film starring Robert Downey Jr. and the successful BBC adaption “Sherlock.”

I started watching CBS’s attempt at the time-treasured detective, “Elementary,” during my winter break of the 2012-2013 school year. It was just after I had returned from my studies abroad in Holmes’s homeland, England. I was feeling, as many do after their studies abroad, homesick for the country I had just gotten used to calling “home.” My mom, as is her way, refused to see me mope around and found me a couple of episodes from our TiVo library of “Elementary,” which stars Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. She also made me a bowl of ice cream with a random assortment of ingredients that I hardly noticed until I took the first bite.

It quickly became my favorite dish and is now something that my mom and I only eat when we watch “Elementary,” which is how it earned its name. The dish is a combination of hot and cold, salty and sweet, and may even lead to a nap by the end of it.

Video by Silvia Pak

Elementary Ice cream

Ingredients:

Vanilla Ice cream
Peanut Butter
Chocolate Syrup
Caramel Syrup
Crushed Walnuts

1. Spoon approximately one tablespoon of peanut butter into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 10 seconds on high.
    
2. Spoon two scoops of ice cream into the bowl, followed by chocolate
   syrup, walnuts and caramel syrup on top.
    
3. Find the latest episode of “Elementary.”
    
4. Enjoy

This recipe is ridiculously easy and can be adjusted for your own preference.  Step 3 is optional.

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