How to Make Homemade Ice Cream (Without an Ice Cream Maker!)

COLFAX, WISCONSIN � June is Dairy Month and what better way to celebrate than with homemade ice cream?

The White Mountain line of homemade freezers comes with a recipe booklet with many recipes that will teach you to make many flavors of the best homemade ice cream. Soon you will become a expert making your own creamy creations that your family will find irrestible.When he moved to Toronto she reluctantly "came East" to be with her grandchildren, leaving behind the mountains of Vancouver for the flat landscape of Ontario. When I was in grade school she and I had lunch together twice a week and as I remember those lunches - she loved to play cards and didn't much like to cook, but she did have a few special recipes: curry from The Cape, Jell-o in contrasting colours and this ice cream recipe.Here are some ideas for additions to your ice cream:

• Strawberries
• Blackberries
• Raspberries
• Peaches
• Cherries (or Maraschino Cherries)
• Chocolate chips
• Butterscotch chips
• Crushed Heath bars
• Crushed peppermint candy
• Chopped walnuts
• Chopped pistachio nuts
• Diced bananas
• Coconut
• Chocolate chip cookie dough (drop into the ice cream by small spoonfuls and carefully fold in)
• Caramel or chocolate or fudge syrup (drop into the ice cream by small spoonfuls and carefully fold in)
  

Her mother emigrated to Canada with the children where they settled in Vancouver. In her early 20's my grandmother eloped to marry a tall handsome Irishman who joined the Western Irish and who was later was wounded at Vimy (WW1). Not believing that anyone could take proper care of her husband she got herself across Canada and on to a troop ship (which was practically unheard of) and arrived in England where he was in hospital. She brought him home where he died of his wound two years later.Beat together the egg yolks and sugar and cook gently in a double boiler, stirring all the time until it thickens slightly.But you may want to opt for the electric model. While it still has the old fashioned look the powerful electric motor will churn out a delicious batch of a creamy homemade desert in no time.Crisping the bread crumbs, sprinkled with sugar, in the oven for 15 minutes. Mix together with the custard and put into an ice cream maker or freeze in the freezer,taking out every 1/2 hour to stir to break up the cristals until totally frozen.Dad's Favorite Recipe (From the book: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam � True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm. Coming Soon � Fall 2004)

• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 cup milk
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream
• pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
  

©2004 LeAnn R. Ralph

Author: LeAnn R. Ralph