European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Living today homemade ice Cream american favorite can be a part of a european fourth of july by Sharon Hudgins special to stripes Magazine when i was a the fourth of july just  have been the same without homemade ice All the rest none of it counted a Whit if there was no homemade ice and not just any of homemade ice it had to be my mothers Vanilla ice made from a cooked custard base that was chilled overnight in the then Frozen in a hand ranked Freezer on the big anyone who tried to feed me uncooked ice Cream would find the whole serving of it in my i was positive that i could taste the raw eggs in it but even worse was ice Cream that contained no eggs at although i always got to lick the Dasher when it was pulled out of the ice Cream i considered it pure torture to wait another 30 minutes or hour while the newly Frozen ice Cream ripened in the at last it was ready and redolent of we downed huge bowls of Savouring the fresh flavor and getting headaches from eating too Only on the next Day if there happened to be any ice Cream left did we pollute it with a Topping of Hershey chocolate we were carrying on an old american one that dates at least Back to the country founding George Washington was a great consumer of ice once purchasing Worth of it in the summer of Thomas Jefferson gets credit for introducing America to its favorite flavor of ice it was he who brought Back from France 200 Vanilla Beans and a recipe for the ice Cream that uses the rest is of course the chinese ultimately get credit for inventing Marco Polo May have indeed discovered ice Cream on his travels to the far East in the 13th but it want until 1846 that american ingenuity produced the hand ranked ice Cream at least i dont know of any petrified ones having been discovered in ancient chinese suddenly ice Cream making was accessible to every american family who could afford a Little and eggs a lot of ice and muscle Many including my swear they can Tell the difference Between ice Cream made in a hand ranked Freezer and the same recipe made in an electric thirty years ago that could Well have been the because electric freezers never produced As firm an ice Cream As hand cranked but my own modern electric Freezer does an excellent and i refuse to get embroiled in such arguments of one can actually taste the difference the key to successful homemade ice Cream is the use of Good the flavor will be Richer and the texture smoother if the ice Cream mixture is prepared and refrigerated several hours in Advance of actual chilling the mixture also reduces the freezing time and the amount of ice after the ice Cream has been you should pack the Freezer with ice and let the ice Cream Ripen for at least 30 minutes some recipes suggest waiting four to six fruit flavors Are even better if they Are allowed to Ripen in that the ice Cream should be packed into plastic Freezer containers and stored in the freezing compartment of your after a Day of storage in the refrigerators freezing most ice creams will be so hard that youll Bend the spoon when you try to scoop them let the ice Cream in its plastic in the refrigerator for 15 to 30 or until it is soft enough to because homemade ice creams dont contain emulsifiers and they wont keep As Well As commercial ice creams Over a Long period of prolonged storage also causes homemade ice stripes photo Lynda Sparks Cream to become coarse in have i Given you enough excuses to eat that delicious ice Cream As soon As youve made it following Are recipes for three of my favorite homemade ice traditional Vanilla ice Cream is my mothers the one that my family has made on every fourth of july for the past four no purists Are Welcome to try the variations my own family attitude was that if you wanted to make banana or Berry ice that what went into the second ice Cream traditional Vanilla was always Chestnut ice Cream is a elegant dessert that youll want to Hoard for yourself or save for special meals and special i think of it More As an autumn or Winter ice but id never pass up a bowl of it at any time of the i discovered this treat at Berthil Lons in Paris where they make it with additional chunks of candied and was thrilled when i figured out How to duplicate it at Quick Coffee ice Cream is simple to and when you taste it youll wish that you had fixed two Gallons instead of it requires no cooking and no chilling period before so you can make up a gallon of it right As soon As youve finished Reading this and even i cannot taste the uncooked eggs in this note All the recipes Are for a on gallon ice Cream either electric or All require that you pour the ice Cream mixture into the then add enough whole milk to reach the top line on the Freezer Container or the top crosspieces of the follow the specific instructions for your own in regard to the amount of ice and Rock Salt plus the time necessary for traditional Vanilla ice 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