FAMOUS FAMILY RECIPES SERIES

RECIPE #26 HOMEMADE ICE CREAM

Along with Saturday Night Hamburgers and Fries it was also normal to have Homemade Ice Cream and Lula’s Brown Sauce. The ice cream freezers were made of wood and hand cranked. Ours was a White Mountain Freezer, a common brand. The freezer can was put down inside the freezer with the mixture (see below).
HOMEMADE VANILLA ICE CREAM

Ingredients:

4 eggs
2 1/2 cups Sugar
6 cups milk
4 cups light cream (half-half)
2 tablespoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt

Beat the eggs until light. Add sugar gradually, beating until mixture thickens. Add remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Place the mixture in the ice-cream freezer along with the dasher. Makes 1 gallon.

Directions:

To make and pack up to 1 gallon of ice cream, you will need about 15 pounds of crushed ice and either 4 cups of table salt or 6 cups of rock salt. About 6 parts ice to 1 part salt. Once the ice and salt is put into the freezer in layers to the top of the freezer and the crank is placed on the can and the sides of the freezer…the cranking begins requiring someone to sit on the top of the freezer to hold it down while cranking. My two smart brothers always convinced the other two of us that it was their job to sit on top while we did the cranking. You crank until it won’t turn anymore and it’s done.

To ‘ripen’ the ice cream (do what?) remove the lid and take out the dasher, cover the lid hole tightly with wax paper or foil and re-pack around and over the top with 4 parts ice to 1 part salt and let sit for 1-2 hours to ripen (just see if you can keep people out of it that long). Then comes the homemade ‘ice cream headaches’ from being too cold…but they are for sure worth it.

(LULA”S BROWN SAUCE in tomorrow’s Journal)

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