Foods with Family History
For sharing foods, recipes, cooking techniques, utensils, etc. carried down from our family’s past
ICE CREAM?
HEWITT PLUMS?
NOBLE BEANS?
HERITAGE GRAINS FROM COOPER DLC?
ICE CREAM
FROM MERRILEE JOHNSON on FACEBOOK
Homemade ice cream was a huge hit for many years at the reunions. Barbara Kerr remembers the ice cream freezers under the tree and I remember them on the bench of the picnic table. These two pictures prove that we were both right! There was a competition of the families depending who had Jerseys, that gave higher fat content milk and those that had Holstein cows, whose milk had less fat. Each family was certain their ice cream was the best, and they all were most likely correct. This was before the ice cream freezers were electric and most of the kids tried their hand at the crank, but always relinquished it before long! The main thing I remember about the recipe is that it had 6 eggs, raw of course.
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Dinah Shelburne and making ice cream
MELISSA JONES-CLARK added:
Definitely raw, no other way to make it!! I always warn folks but other doesn’t taste the same. I always just use same ingredients my mommy used for eggnog (no spices and she hated nutmeg) just a bit sweeter… love this memory! Remember grandpa Warmington and uncle Ernest Shelburne having us kids crank those old cannister filled with yummy goodness!RECIPE FROM M. KAY ERNST:One of my earliest family memories is homemade ice cream in a cranker freezer. The three of us girls always got to crank early in the process, then the folks took over. The wooden crank freezers, I discovered, needed to be kept in a cool damp place or they fell apart. Living in Western Idaho and Eastern OR, I had had such a place. After going through 2 or 3 finally gave up and bought an electric one. Here is the Ice cream recipe my Mom gave to me: 8 eggs, which I beat some with an old hand style mixer; then add 2 1/2 cups sugar and mix well to dissolve sugar; 1 pint of whipping cream; 1 quart half and half (NOT fat free!); mix well. 2 -3 Tablespoons vanilla and a pinch of salt. Pour into freezer can and swish bowl with a little milk, then add milk to fill line. I have never liked the cooked custard type. (I am of the Isaiah Cooper line 1843-46) My grandma Mary A Cooper Miller )-
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Scott Fery, Darrell Hewitt, and ? sampling the winning ice cream in the 2019 version of ice cream competition.
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