ice cream....

A few years ago I purchased an ice cream maker from the 70's at a garage sale. I think we have used it like 3 times prior. This summer my daughters and I have a list of 100 things we want to do, and on it was making ice cream.  So we created a recipe with what we had in the house and went about making this frozen treat.

Needless to say I did not have enough ice or even rock salt as per the original instructions to my ice cream maker.  I did however have a bunch of frozen ice pops. So we attempted to use them to make the ice cream maker work.  I has to say they got so cold, when placed in the contraption with some water, that they formed new ice! I was thinking it was going to work! Talk about Impromptu!

I was wrong. I do not think it was the lack of coldness, but the fact the internal scraper thingy of the ice cream machine was not moving, which caused the ice cream not to form.  So, after listening to the insane noise the ice cream maker made for over 3 hours, with no ice cream forming, we opted to go to plan B.

We placed the mixture in a large Tupperware container and put it in the deep freezer. We stirred it each 30 - 45 minutes and had an awesome breakfast of homemade ice cream this morning for breakfast!

Ice Cream
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
5 eggs
3 cups milk
1 TB vanilla

Whisk the 1st 4 ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook over medium low heat until thicken (about 10 min) stirring constantly.  Remove from the heat and slowly whisk in the remaining ingredients. Once combined and cooled, add to your ice cream maker and follow the manufacuturers
instructions.  (Of course you can always do it the way we ended up doing it as well if needed.)

Next time I think we are going to try to create a Chocolate version or Strawberry with all the berry's we picked earlier this month.... so stay tuned!