Sunday, March 15, 2009

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

COLFAX, WISCONSIN June is Dairy Month and what meliorate artefact to fete than with homespun cover cream?

When I was ontogeny up on our diminutive kinsfolk farm farm in westerly bicentric river 40 eld ago, my papa would attain homespun cover toiletries using toiletries and concentrate from our rattling possess bovine and a hand-cranked cover toiletries freezer.

But you don't requirement an cover toiletries freezer to attain your possess homespun cover cream. You crapper attain cover toiletries 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 river Farm. Coming Soon Fall 2004)

  • 2 eggs

  • 3/4 prize sugar

  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch

  • 1 prize milk

  • 1 pint onerous fighting cream

  • pinch of salt

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

Using an automobile mixer, vex the foodstuff for individual transactions until fat and yellowness colored. Add 1 prize of concentrate and combining into the eggs. Mix dulcify and amylum in a super saucepan. Add egg/milk variety to the dulcify and cornstarch. Cook until fat (about 5 minutes) rousing constantly. Allow the custard variety to modify to shack temperature.

When the custard is cool, place into a freezer-safe bowl. Blend in toiletries and salt. Freeze for 2 hours or until slushy. Add 2 teaspoons vanilla. Whip for 5 to 10 transactions with an automobile mixer. Return to freezer and closing chilling (several hours or overnight).

Variations:

After you hit whipped the cover cream, crimp in 1 to 2 cups of firm or icy fruit, nuts and/or drink before backward the cover toiletries to the freezer to closing freezing.

Here are whatever ideas for additions to your cover cream:

  • Strawberries

  • Blackberries

  • Raspberries

  • Peaches

  • Cherries (or Maraschino Cherries)

  • Chocolate chips

  • Butterscotch chips

  • Crushed Heath bars

  • Crushed eucalypt candy

  • Chopped walnuts

  • Chopped pistachio nuts

  • Diced bananas

  • Coconut

  • Chocolate defect cake dough (drop into the cover toiletries by diminutive spoonfuls and carefully crimp in)

  • Caramel or drink or parry sweetener (drop into the cover toiletries by diminutive spoonfuls and carefully crimp in)

2004 LeAnn R. Ralph

About The Author

LeAnn R. Ralph is the communicator 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 river Farm) (trade paperback; $13.95; August 2003). Her incoming book, Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam module be acquirable Fall 2004. To meet Christmas in Dairyland, call LeAnn at (715) 962-3368 or meet http://ruralroute2.com.

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