Back Down Memory Lane: Homemade Ice Cream

[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.

[blackngoldengrl]

ooh! I had homeade ice cream last October at an alumnae ice-cream social, simply delicious. It was made from an electric machine though. In our house growing up we had an electric one as well. BUT at girl scout camp and church in the summers, we used to make it with the crank and rock salt. I think all the hard work makes it taste "better."

[KAPital PHINUst]

Goshdangit yall, I came from a poor family but I have NEVER had any homemade ice cream--now yall got me yearnin' for some. And I can imagine how good it is.

*looks at watch* About 3 hours left in the workday. I'ma havta call Mom and see if she can make me some homemade ice cream.

Darn you, CT4!!

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

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

Ahhh, the memories of the rock salt and the churning. I thought about buying one of the new fangled modern ice cream makers, but wondered if it would be the same.

[NiaX]

I must be a heathen... my elders just cooked and baked... no one made ice cream.... But I have had Blue Bell cause they are finally selling them in our city.... there is a place here called Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen, but I have never been there....

[LuckyCharm85]

You know Food Network had a special about Ice Cream on last night, lol!! And as sleepy as I was, I watched the whole thing!! Anyway, of course they had to talk about the Homemade Ice Cream!! I remember my mom and I made some at least five times when I was younger. I swear you learn something new every day but apparently they have a ball that you can shake and play with to make ice cream...I was like "WOW"!! If I find a link, I'll post it!! Also check out Ecreamery.com. Here you can have them make a specific flavor(s) and they'll deliver it to your front door!! I am going to try this!!!