Old fashioned ice cream recipe
November 5, 2020 1:43 PM Subscribe
For those folks who have made ice cream at family gatherings using old recipes. I am searching for the ice cream recipe that is NOT French custard and uses mostly whole milk and maybe has eggs.
This recipe has haunted me for a while. It is the ice cream made by my old relatives when I was very young. The ingredients I am sure about are milk, sugar, and seasonal diced/pureed fruit. It was made in an old fashioned churn with rock salt and ice. This is a recipe or some variant used between 1890-1997. Unfortunately, my elderly relatives have passed and the "younger" set bought bucket ice creams since getting children to hand crank was a thing.
It is not a French custard-style and Philadelphia style seems close but not as delicious as I remember, but of course this is childhood nostalgia. This would be in Central and Southern California, if that is helpful and to tell you how delicious tree fresh fruit is in ice cream.
So Mefites tell me of your family ice cream recipes that are from family gatherings.
This recipe has haunted me for a while. It is the ice cream made by my old relatives when I was very young. The ingredients I am sure about are milk, sugar, and seasonal diced/pureed fruit. It was made in an old fashioned churn with rock salt and ice. This is a recipe or some variant used between 1890-1997. Unfortunately, my elderly relatives have passed and the "younger" set bought bucket ice creams since getting children to hand crank was a thing.
It is not a French custard-style and Philadelphia style seems close but not as delicious as I remember, but of course this is childhood nostalgia. This would be in Central and Southern California, if that is helpful and to tell you how delicious tree fresh fruit is in ice cream.
So Mefites tell me of your family ice cream recipes that are from family gatherings.
It sounds like a sherbet recipe to me. There's a raspberry sherbet recipe in David Lebowitz's The Perfect Scoop which I've made many times and is delicious:
450g raspberries
500ml whole milk
200g sugar
1.5 tsp lemon juice
Blend the ingredients except the lemon juice until smooth. Strain the mixture, stir in the lemon juice and churn.
There's a similar recipe here (https://www.thespruceeats.com/orange-sherbet-recipe-1945803) though I haven't tried it.
posted by aussie_powerlifter at 3:48 PM on November 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
450g raspberries
500ml whole milk
200g sugar
1.5 tsp lemon juice
Blend the ingredients except the lemon juice until smooth. Strain the mixture, stir in the lemon juice and churn.
There's a similar recipe here (https://www.thespruceeats.com/orange-sherbet-recipe-1945803) though I haven't tried it.
posted by aussie_powerlifter at 3:48 PM on November 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
I would bet you are looking for the Sunset Magazine published Ice Cream book of recipes.
My dad has this book, and the fresh peach version of that recipe is spectacular. I'm looking for it online, and will update when I find it.
Our kid-powered crank machine was a White Mountain, and their peach recipe looks similar.
posted by ApathyGirl at 4:19 PM on November 5, 2020
My dad has this book, and the fresh peach version of that recipe is spectacular. I'm looking for it online, and will update when I find it.
Our kid-powered crank machine was a White Mountain, and their peach recipe looks similar.
posted by ApathyGirl at 4:19 PM on November 5, 2020
My grandma would make homemade ice cream using Pet milk (evaporated milk) and whole homogenized milk. It was definitely a custard style because it included eggs and was cooked. I don't remember if she used whole eggs or just yolks. I don't have her recipe book in front of me to confirm. Doing a quick search of the vast interwebs, I found this recipe:
https://adventuresofmel.com/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream-recipe/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes&utm_term=664824746_25900340_106221
The pictures in that link look exactly like our homemade ice cream. My grandma never added anything to her ice cream mix, just vanilla, but this recipe mentions add ins. I think the ingredient that gave it a unique taste was the evaporated milk.
For the record, my grandma was the youngest of 4 children, born in 1923, in Western NY. Her nephew, who is now in his upper 70s, would still use the old family hand crank ice cream maker if he could find someone to share the cranking duties with. I think that confirms the recipe is old.
posted by DEiBnL13 at 9:46 PM on November 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
https://adventuresofmel.com/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream-recipe/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes&utm_term=664824746_25900340_106221
The pictures in that link look exactly like our homemade ice cream. My grandma never added anything to her ice cream mix, just vanilla, but this recipe mentions add ins. I think the ingredient that gave it a unique taste was the evaporated milk.
For the record, my grandma was the youngest of 4 children, born in 1923, in Western NY. Her nephew, who is now in his upper 70s, would still use the old family hand crank ice cream maker if he could find someone to share the cranking duties with. I think that confirms the recipe is old.
posted by DEiBnL13 at 9:46 PM on November 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
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Ice Cream Recipe
4 cups light cream
4 cups heavy cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups sugar
brick of ice
coarse salt
Directions:
Beat the eggs. Add vanilla and sugar to the eggs and stir. Add both creams and cinnamon and stir. Put mixture into canister. Crush the ice (mallets work well). Fill around canister in barrel, alternating between ice and coarse salt. Put lid on. Ask a friend to sit on the lid. Turn the crank handle until the crank becomes hard to turn (approximately 20 minutes).
posted by euphoria066 at 2:40 PM on November 5, 2020