It does not take a special occasion to indulge ourselves in the making of homemade ice cream at my house. It reminds me of my childhood and the too numerous to count times of churning with the old-fashioned, wooden-boxed, hand cranked ice cream makers in my grandmother's backyard. The cousins would all take turns, one sitting on the top to steady it and the other one to turn the crank. Since we were such a large family of aunts, uncles and oodles of cousins, everyone joined in and it would take two freezers to feed us all.
Our ice cream maker is an electric device, but it still turns out the most delicious of ice cream. We truly can not decide which flavor is our favorite, strawberry, peach or banana, but banana has been the favored choice lately.
Company is coming tonight so I plan to make a peach blueberry cobbler with homemade vanilla ice cream for dessert. The cobbler does not need the ice cream and the ice cream definitely does not need the cobbler, but what a mingling to cause the taste buds to explode with sweet ambrosial pleasure.
4 comments:
I really like your new photo with the hydrangeas.
Yum, homemade icecream, I've had it but never made it. My boys would really like that. I'm afraid if we had a cool machine like yours we would eat far more ice cream than we already do!
I was wondering how you got the different blog links with pictures on your blog? I have seen that on other blogs too and wasn't sure how to do it.
Blessings,
Jen
That brought back many good memories. We used to go to our Grandma's house in Minnesota and make homemade icecream. I remember that the men (My dad, my uncle and Grandpa) would have debates about the best way to make the icecream...then us kids would sit on the top while one cranked. It was always so much fun and the icecream so delicious. My Dad never allowed fruit in the icecream to "ruin" it. He doesn't like fruit flavored things so we always had plain vanilla.
Oh our chn have been asking for homemade ice cream. I keep saying, "Wait till Summer". I see you have ice cubes in your machine. Our bowl is put in the freezer for days and comes out so cold. So cold in fact, that the paddle would freeze on to it if we did not begin mixing straight away. All too cold for my hands to handle.
I have not blogged as much lately....not sure what to include in my posts actually.....
Oh the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. :-)
We haven't made ice-cream in about 20 years, but when we did it was just plain old vanilla....I think my preference would be peach or strawberry. Maybe that's something we should try making this summer!
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