MAKING HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
Brenda Kellow, 2014
Tracing Our Roots
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There is nothing like homemade ice cream, and the best comes from those old hand-cranked ice cream makers we had growing up. Stop. I still have a hand crank and we use it a couple times a year, mostly for the Fourth of July when we go to the Davises for their ‘blowout.’ Accompanying it are my chocolate pecan brownies. They have been asking for this for three or four years.
Daddy made ice cream on hot summer evenings. We would all sit outside in the lawn chairs under a big tree and Daddy would bring out the newspapers, ice cream salt, and ice and then the big container of the milk mixture Mother had put together. Mother almost always made vanilla, but sometimes when the peach trees gave a good crop of peaches, she would use fresh peaches in the mix. Yum!
As I said in the beginning, we still use ours to make ice cream. Mostly mine is vanilla but I also make delicious chocolate and green tea ice cream.
When our children were growing up at home, they always loved to help. They often sat on the top of the bucket with lots of newspapers between their little bottoms and the icy container. They giggled and laughed and squealed. Now they are grown, but still love to have the ice cream anytime we will make it.
We have progressed to enlist the help of our grandsons. Michael loves to help and won’t miss a minute of the making from beginning to end, even sitting on the newspapers on the top, but Nicolas had rather spend his time on the computer. He even likes to eat his ice cream at the computer. Oh, Nicolas loves to write. Wonder who he got that trait from?
I am writing Making Memories to encourage you to write about topics that you experienced growing up. I’ll bet most of you remember making homemade ice cream. What was your mom’s recipe? Do you have it today? I have my mom’s and my sister’s recipe that I use still, but the chocolate and green tea recipes are my own. I could include my recipe, but if you made it you would all probably die in a sugar induced coma! It probably has a thousand calories a bowl.
Ah, did you eat the ice cream in bowls or cup or glass? We never had specific bowls, just what we were using at the time. But I’m sure some of you had a tradition associated with the making of ice cream.
Share it with your family. Make your memories. Start new traditions like we have for Easter. Yes, we have begun an adult Easter egg hunt, now that we are all adults. If the weather is bad, we hunt the eggs in the house. Some eggs are filled with special candies, but in the future may contain restaurant cards or department store cards. Who knows what that cleaver bunny might add? Whatever is fun is a memory you want to perpetuate. Get started writing about Making Memories for your family.