Homemade Ice Cream Jolene Navarro
Hello! Jolene Navarro here checking in from my front porch, eating homemade ice cream. It’s summer so it’s time to make creamy vanilla ice cream.
If you have never made it before, it’s not difficult and so much fun. When I was growing up we had to take turns hang cranking the ice cream…that was not fun. LOL. But we would add the fresh peaches from our tree and that was worth all the work.
Today you can pick-up an electric ice cream maker for less than twenty dollars. The ingredients are super simple.
In my new series The Cowboys of the Diamondback ranch making ice cream on the back porch is a family tradition.
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So I thought I would share the way I make it.
Ingredients for homemade vanilla ice cream
When you mix the ingredients you can use a little heat to devolve the sugar, but I don’t.
Mixing the Ingredients for homemade vanilla ice cream
After I mix everything in a metal bowl I put it in the refrigerator to chill. I pull the metal core out of the freezer and put it in the bucket, then I pack the ice and rock salt around it. The colder the center bucket the better.
Mix until it’s frozen!
Now that my cream and sugar mixture is cold I pour it into the mixer. Plug it in and let it get whipped.
Somewhere between 30 and 40 minutes you have ice cream. The last five minutes or so you can add fruit or candies of your choice.
Mix until it’s frozen!
Pick your toppings or top off the fruit with a scope.
Ingredients:
3 cups of heavy
3/4 whole milk
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
pinch of salt.
Toppings of your choice
Do you make ice cream or is there another family tradition you do to welcome summertime? Leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of The Texan’s Secret Daughter.
Jolene’s life, much like her stories, is filled with faith, family, and all of life's wonderful messiness. She knows that, as much as the world changes, people stay the same. Good and evil. Vow-keepers and heart breakers. Jolene married a vow-keeper who showed her that holding hands and dancing in the rain never gets old. She loves creating stories of love and faith in her much loved Texas.
Hi Jolene! Thanks for sharing. When our boys were younger, we received an electric ice cream maker and every summer on our deck we made a batch for the Fourth of July and again at Labor Day. So fun to add fruit, some which the boys helped pick. My husband, whose father loved ice cream, remembers making ice cream with a hand crank model. In Michigan we finally have warmer weather with no rain and have been to take walks, sit outside in the park and on the deck, eat lunch on the deck. This early morning sun just beginning to rise, I am being serenaded by the robins and the dove is adding her song. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your summer.
Hi Jolene, sounds yum! I have only seen a hand ice cream maker once- some friends had one that we tried out. I was amazed at how cold it got!
We don’t make ice cream but we do make lots of smoothies out of frozen fruit from our garden, as well as a berry sorbet type desert that is great with pancakes.
Blessings:)
Although I LOVE ice cream, I’ve never had the hand made kind. I am sure it is delicious!
We used to make homemade ice cream a lot when our kids were growing up and when we had family reunions.
I have both the old-fashioned hand crank ice cream maker and the much better electric type, but we have still not made homemade ice cream in at least 10 years.
Your recipe looks yummy and makes me want to get the electric one out and make some. We always enjoyed making peach ice cream when out peaches ripen, another month or so.
What a beautiful morning. Thanks for sharing your memories too. Something about eating g fruit you picked makes it extra delicious Here’s to a great summer
I eat a smoothie every morning. I use frozen fruit and spinach. So good. ?
Hi Wemble, I eat a smoothie every morning. I use frozen fruit and spinach. So good. ?
It is most of the time. Sometimes its disastrous. Lol
That’s what I remember the most. Our peach tree almost dragging the ground and my dad making ice cream with fresh peaches.
I got my mom a small countertop ice cream maker for her birthday a couple of years ago and it is fun to sample the different flavors she makes.
When I was growing up, my parents would make homemade ice cream a LOT during the summer!! My sisters and I took turns sitting in the middle while Daddy cranked the handle. I got to sit in the middle the longest, since I was the youngest and small for age. I still remember how cold my bottom would get!! Electric makers just don’t make the same memories, but the ice cream is still the best!
I grew up on homemade ice cream too! It was so much fun with all the cousins were over to take turns cranking and sitting. When my husband and I went to Hong Kong as missionaries, we took an ice cream freezer with us. The only time we had problems was one time when the rock salt we bought at the market did not work right, and the ice cream never got hard! We never did figure out exactly why that happened.
We also learned that if you start with chocolate milk, you get chocolate ice cream – YUM!!
I have made homemade ice cream, but not for a long time.
My favorite ice cream to make is peach but also different fruits throughout the summer.
When I was growing up, my Daddy would make homemade ice cream every week. We had a hand crank freezer and my sisters and I would take turns sitting on it to hold it down. He would sometimes make it with fruit in it, but I liked vanilla. Mother would make chocolate syrup to go with it. He later got an electric freezer. When I was older he got a recipe for lemon slice ice cream and that quickly became a favorite. His grandkids still preferred vanilla with chocolate syrup, though.
Hi Jolene, Your homemade ice cream looks so good! I’ve never tried to make it myself. :)
We couldn’t afford much in the way of entertainment when I was a child. But one of the things we’d do was make homemade banana ice cream. Several of my dad’s brothers lived very close by so one or more of them would bring their families and what fun we would all have. I can remember the men taking turns turning the crank. The anticipation was almost as good as the ice cream. My favorite ice cream is vanilla so this blog post makes me want an ice cream maker!
What a fun gift. You can get really creative with flavors.
LOL – There is something about cranking the ice cream. I love those family memories. LOL I do remember it being so cold.
Cold bottoms! LOL At the time we had no idea how precious those memories would be. Thank you for sharing.
We grew up with a bunch of cousins too. It was the best and we didn’t even know it at the time. LOL Now I want to get chocolate milk. :)
We had a peach tree and that was the best!!! :)