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Chef
Diane
When I was young, our vacations consisted of going to
visit my grandparents who lived on the beach.
Our big night of the trip was to invite all the local family members
over, grill burgers out back, show slide on the side of the house once it got
dark, and turn a churn of ice cream.
Things were alot less complicated back then, and good memories were
made. My grandfather had a hand crank
ice cream freezer. He would fill up the
inside container with the ingredients to make the ice cream. Place it in the freezer and surround it with
ice and rock salt. He would sit and turn
the crank until his arm got tired, then pass the duties to the next person who
happened to be standing around. I guess
the fact that I was sitting on top of the freezer while he was churning it
didnt make his task any easier.
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Once the ice cream was finished, he would pull the beater
out for me and my brother to lick, then he would put more ice around the
container and place a towel across the top to allow it to pack. When it was ready to eat, my mother would
fill up paper cups and pass it around to everyone while we enjoyed the slides
being shown on the house.
As I got older my daddy got an electric freezer, no more
hand turning for him! I remember him
mixing the ingredients like my grandfather did; letting me or my brother lick
the sides of the eagle brand sweetened condensed milk. That was some of the best ice cream
ever. During the summer, my church would
have ice cream socials. Families would
bring their freezers to church full of fresh made ice cream to share after the
Sunday night service. As you can
imagine, the ladies of the church would always put their best efforts forward
when bringing something to church. It
was then that I learned you could add things to the ice cream. Up intil then we
only had vanilla ice cream in our freezer, but at church they would have fresh
peach ice cream, strawberry, banana, blueberry, and all kinds of flavors like
chocolate, butterscotch and even praline.
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Nancy Johnson invented the first hand-cranked model in
1843. She then sold the patent to William Young, who marketed the machine as
the Johnson Patent Ice-Cream Freezer.
Since then the freezer has gone through many changes. From being hand cranked, to electric, to a
tabletop device that you place in the freezer for your finished product. A few years ago I gave my cousin a small ice
cream freezer for her kids. Every day
they would try a new recipe, and she would let me know what kind of ice cream
they had fixed for the day. They all
sounded so delicious I would be tempted to drive to her home to sample some.
Today we celebrate the birth of the ice cream freezer,
and I am including a recipe for you to try if you need one. Why not dust off your freezer and start using
it for the warm summer months ahead.
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Vanilla
Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 quarts half-and-half cream
- 1/2 pint heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
Directions
Combine half-and-half, cream, sugar, vanilla and salt in
freezer container of ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's
instructions.
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