Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire First attempt at home made ice cream

When It's about like a milk shake, it only means you've cranked it about as much as you can. So, it is time to pour all of the melted ice out of the mixer, take the top off of the canister seal it with some plastic before forcing the top back on.

Then start layering in rock salt and ice until the canister is completely covered in ice. Then cover the hold thing with a folded drop cloth, tarp or something similar and let it set for at least an hour, more time is better.

Then it is ready to scoop out with the firmness of traditional ice cream. Enjoy!

Some of my favorite ice cream.

If homemade, I prefer plain old vanilla.

Though a dash of teaberry makes it more better.

I do like to put some Hershey's in it sometimes, and around here if ice cream is getting made so is peanut butter sauce. Can't think of the ratios off the top of my head, but it's butter, peanut butter, corn syrup, and brown sugar all heated up and melted together.

We had a wooden tub Sno Ball. And a lot of kids to sit on top of the bath mat to hold it down while other kids cranked away like crazy. Takes a lot of rock salt to melt the ice to make it cold as possible, then more ice. The church had ice cream suppers with every kind imaginable.

When I was a kid Mom would get all the fixins together and us kids would take turns hand cranking the Ice Cream maker a couple time a year.
She would put a lot of Rock Salt in the Ice Maker to cool the Ice below freezing as we cranked it.
That Ice Cream sometime would get so hard that we kids could not crank the handle.
We never did get runny Ice Cream always quite firm and real cold.
The best Ice Cream you can get is Home Made.

Ice Cream is kinda like a BJ, some is better than others but even the worst is still really, really good.

Here ya' go, Spot. Once you go Andy's, you'll never go back.

Thanks, this by far the best recipe yet using the Cuisinart. I guess It was the eggs but it was a lot creamer and didn’t freeze rock hard like the recipe that comes with the Cuisinart that calls for 1 1/8 cup of sugar and 3 cups of heavy cream and 1 cup of whole milk. I did use the vanilla extract though and it was still good.

Had home made ice cream cranked from a hit and miss engine, and from a tractor PTO. Wish I had those rigs. Especially a hit and miss.
Hit and miss was popular with Amish for milking, but seems those are getting phased out.

Heck with making it just go buy some Tillamook. Tried it for the first time a couple months ago. It’s right up there in quality. Not sure you could make it that good.

And if you've a TX Roadhouse in your town don't cook your own steak either.