Our days are getting warmer and all too soon we will be be sweltering in the hot days of summer. I am not a warm weather person, never have been and never will be. Our family like so many others would get out the old crank ice cream freezer frequently-- to enjoy homemade ice cream. Every child anxiously awaited to see if they would be the one to get to sit on the top of the ice cream freezer...After Mom had filled the freezer with the ice cream mixture, she put it inside of the wooden freezer bucket-placed the crank on it than put the ice and ice cream salt all around the bucket--alternating the ice & salt. The final step was folding a towel & placing it on top of the freezer..Now this was the place that EVERY CHILD wanted to be... it really cooled you off--also gave you the coldest bottom north of the Brazos. The job of turning the crank wasn't near as much fun, in fact as the cream hardened, the cranking became very hard to turn.
We had some peach trees and Mom was always making peach cobbler or peach fried pies to go with the ice cream. Sometimes she sliced the peaches, sprinkled some sugar over the fruit and we had it as a topping....That was my favorite.
Mom's ice cream recipe is not a real rich tasting cream but it is still our favorite-- in later years she started making a much richer ice cream I will post later---but for today, go get your ice cream freezer and lets "crank up" some of Mom's old fashioned ice cream ==
6 eggs-- beat good
3 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 can pet milk
Homogenized milk
Dash of vanilla--(I use 1 tsp.)
After mixing all of the above real good, pour the mixture into the freezer can- place the can into your freezer bucket. Finish filling the freezer can with homogenized milk..Put the lid on, attach the crank---now you are into business!! If there is a little one around, slap a towel on top and place your little sweetie pie on top -- don't forget while you are cranking be sure to tell them a story of the good ole days.....( I am well aware that probably NONE of you have a crank freezer but it may be a good investment--for you & for the lucky child that will have the memory .)
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Aunt Jimmie,
ReplyDeletethat sounds so good. We're debating on whether or not to have an ice cream party for Gracen's birthday party. I've always been partial to mom's homemade ice cream....she used Big Red for the flavoring and it always turned out so good.
If we do go ahead and have the ice cream party, I'm either going to attempt to make big red ice cream or I'll use the recipe you gave.
Hope yall are doing good.