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How to Make Homemade Ice Cream
Without an Ice Cream Maker!
by LeAnn R. Ralph
June is Dairy Month and what better way to celebrate than with homemade
ice cream?
When I was growing up on our small family dairy farm in west central
Wisconsin 40 years ago, my dad would make homemade ice cream using cream
and milk from our very own cows and a hand-cranked ice cream freezer.
But you don't need an ice cream freezer to make your own homemade ice
cream. You can make ice cream with your refrigerator. Here's how:
Dad's Favorite Recipe
(From the book: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam - True Stories
from a Wisconsin Farm.)
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup milk
1 pint heavy whipping cream
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
Using an electric mixer, beat the eggs for several minutes until thick
and lemon colored. Add 1 cup of milk and blend into the eggs. Mix sugar
and cornstarch in a large saucepan. Add egg/milk mixture to the sugar
and cornstarch. Cook until thick (about 5 minutes) stirring constantly.
Allow the custard mixture to cool to room temperature.
When the custard is cool, put into a freezer-safe bowl. Blend in cream
and salt. Freeze for 2 hours or until slushy. Add 2 teaspoons vanilla.
Whip for 5 to 10 minutes with an electric mixer. Return to freezer and
finish freezing (several hours or overnight).
Variations:
After you have whipped the ice cream, fold in 1 to 2 cups of fresh or
frozen fruit, nuts and/or chocolate before returning the ice cream to
the freezer to finish freezing.
Here are some ideas for additions to your ice cream:
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Strawberries
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Blackberries
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Raspberries
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Peaches
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Cherries (or
Maraschino Cherries)
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Chocolate chips
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Butterscotch chips
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Crushed Heath bars
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Crushed peppermint
candy
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Chopped walnuts
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Chopped pistachio nuts
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Diced bananas
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Coconut
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Chocolate chip cookie
dough (drop into the ice cream by small spoonfuls and carefully fold
in)
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Caramel or chocolate
or fudge syrup (drop into the ice cream by small spoonfuls and
carefully fold in)
About the author
LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the books: Preserve Your Family History
(A Step-by-Step Guide for Writing Oral Histories)" (e-book; 66 pages
$7.95;
http://www.booklocker.com/books/1545.html and Christmas in Dairyland
(True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm). Her next book, "Give Me a Home
Where the Dairy Cows Roam" will be available Fall 2004.
http://ruralroute2.com
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