Back Down Memory Lane: Homemade Ice Cream

[CrimsonTide4]

Who has had homemade ice cream before?
Who had the actual maker? What color was yours?

Here we reminisce on the magical wonders of rock salt.


I had some this summer for my birthday.

We had one growing up with a blue base thingy. My daddy used to make it for us.


ETA: Who makes/made the best homemade ice cream?

[TonyB06]

Gee, CT4, where do you come up with such interesting topics?

My cousin's grand-ma made the best homemade ice cream ever. Using rock salt, and a blue bucket with a large crank on the top, Sis. Tennyson (RIP) made magic!!

As I told some "cool" friends recently, I was in Walmart and saw the bucket with the crank, and for a minute thought I was going to do it myself. But then I was like, "playa, you can't even funk with the way Sis. T put it down." So sanity returned and I just live with the tasty memories...

...but if somebody is making some, call me!

[MeezDiscreet]

in all my years on this earth, i've NEVER had homemade ice cream and have always wanted to try it.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
in all my years on this earth, i've NEVER had homemade ice cream and have always wanted to try it.

oh my dear Lord in HEBEN!!!

[AKA2D '91]

Say what? Never had what? oh lawd! LOL

yeah, we had several ice cream machines. All of my relatives did. That's all they made "back in the day". Store bought what? You betta get outta dodge with that!

We were "big time" when we got an electic maker. My grandmother said the ice cream wasn't as good as the "crank" machine.

One of my aunts had a recipe where you did NOT have to cook your custard.

I haven't had hommade ice cream in yearssssssssss. Blue Bell AND Borden's Brown Velvet home made vanilla ALMOST have home made beat.

One of our machines was organe with the white motor thing on top. Another one was a brown color with the black crank. Another one had like a wooden exterior with a black crank. LOL @ crank!

[CrimsonTide4]

THAT IS ALL

[skeeliteful]

The one my mom's best friend used to have is very similar to the one at the top. Homemade vanilla ice cream was the bomb on a hot summer day!!

[OrangeMoon]

This is similar to the one my mom used. She used to break that bad boy out every time we begged to go to the ice cream truck. That was some gooddddddd icecream. She was cranking that bad boy so hard and fast I thought her arm was going to fall off.

Wowwwwwwww I wonder if persuasion will work. Maybe I can get some for Christmas. We have plenty of rock salt.

[Missam05]

Ooh we have homemade Ice Cream every family reunion and everyone fights over it too..my great uncle and grandmothers are the makers and I think they have upgraded to an automatic but I can remember the crank kind...

[Dionysus]

My mom used to fix it when I was little. She didn't use an ice cream maker. She just mixed up the ingredients and poured it in a ice cube tray and let it froze. It tasted pretty good.

[abaici]

Mmmmm. I have such fond memories of homemade ice cream. My mommy hooked it up in her brown ice cream maker.


She bought an electric one a few years ago. She says it's not the same.

My Aunt Mamie made the best homemade ice cream. Down in Mississippi, when my cousins and I spent the summer with my grandmother, she would come over, with that brown wood ice cream maker, with the steel churner on top and whip up the best ice cream. I used to love watching her and helping her make it outside. That stuff was so great.

Now my great-grandmother (God, rest her soul after the age of 106) made some good ice cream, too. The only difference was hers wasn't as smooth as my aunt's.

Man, I miss those days.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Originally posted by TonyB06
...but if somebody is making some, call me!

We have it every year at our family b-b-q mother's day weekend. My aunt makes it. Her churn is like the second pic. I have to admit, I would've stopped going to the gathering long ago had it not been for the homemade ice cream. Even now, I will call to see if she's made the ice cream before I leave the house.

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
... I have to admit, I would've stopped going to the gathering long ago had it not been for the homemade ice cream. Even now, I will call to see if she's made the ice cream before I leave the house.

ROTFL. You KNOW you ain't right for this ^^ but I feel you, playa

*yall gon mess around and make me buy an ice-cream maker--->of course, then I'd have to go jack somebody's grandmother to make it "right" for me.*

[CrimsonTide4]

I'm going to have to put in a request for this at the 4th of July family get together.