Homemade Frozen Goodness

[EricStratton]

Okay, the 4th is almost here and everyone will be digging out those ice cream makers for the first time - if you haven't already done so this summer.

So, what's your favorite homemade ice cream recipe?

Sweet talkin' the little Indian Baskin Robbins girl into givin' me a free scoop of mint-chocolate chip to celebrate our freedom....

[Monkey]

I posted this recipe last year I think. . . . but YEAH IT'S THAT GOOD that I'm posting it again. . . it's my dad's favorite homemade ice cream! :smt118

Walt's Chocolate Thin Mint Ice Cream

1/2 gallon Borden's Dutch Chocolate Milk
1 pkg York Peppermint Patties chopped
1 can sweetened condensed milk (my dad likes to add 2 cans so it's reaaaaally sweet!)

Pour all the ingredients into your ice cream freezer and mix it til you've got some AWESOME ice cream! Believe me. . . this stuff doesn't sit around the house long! :smt023

[fuzzis]

My best friend makes watermelon sherbet.

5 cups watermelon, seeded
1/2 cup sugar
juice of one lemon
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup water
1/3 cup cream

Combine watermelon, sugar and lemon juice. Let it chill for half an hour or so.

Place watermelon in blender, a little at a time, and blend until smooth.

Sprinkle gelatin over water in small sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until dissolved.

Combine watermelon mixture, gelatin, and cream. Pour into ice cream maker and follow directions.

Yummy.

[thrillseeker]

my mom makes this stuff that taste just like Wendys Frostys. I cant wait to have some this summer. I will have to ask for the recipe.

[CircusRide]

I like to feed the pets ice cream. I never knew rats liked ice cream.
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[Hermione]

Gosh, I remember cranking, and cranking, and cranking . . . it seemed like forever, and then when we were done, it was NOT ice cream! It was frozen custard. I was always disappointed, as a child, but today would dearly love to have some of my grandmother's frozen custard.

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

Speaking of homemade ice cream, my mother has the best recipe for fresh peach ice cream.

For a gallon:

cup of sugar
1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
4 c. fresh, ripe peaches
1 quart whipping cream
milk

Slice and mash the peaches. Combine ingrediants. Add milk to fill line. Freeze.


Only complaint, I was going to make this Sunday. The dang quart of whipping cream at Wal Mart was $4. I substituted more milk and it wasn't as good. Oh well. Try it again another time.

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

Haw, Monkey made the cho peppermint ice cream for us at the office last year. It doesn't matter how many patties because you're shoving it in your mouth so fast you don't taste individual pieces! Man that stuff was fine.

[jessi_s]

all this talk of ice cream is really making me miss that awesome marble slab I had last night... cheesecake icecream with strawberries in it... yum!

[citygirl]

my mom makes this stuff that taste just like Wendys Frostys. I cant wait to have some this summer. I will have to ask for the recipe.

We are having chocolate ice cream tomorrow. A friend is making it and I was told it tastes like the Frosty's at Wendy's. This is what he puts in it:

I don't know how much but

chocolate milk
1 can condensed milk
1 tub of cool whip

mix and freeze.

[Hermione]

Here's something my mom used to make in the freezer in ice cube trays (without the little cube doohickeys). She mixed buttermilk, canned crushed pineapple in syrup and sugar, and froze. Tastes like pineapple sherbet.

[Monkey]

And Monkey; How many York's you figure to a bag? We buy the giant box and Sam's and keep them in the freezer. I think the box has 200 patties in it.

I use a small package of mints and chop them up. . . but you could use more if you wanted to. It's your preference as to how much mint you want in the ice cream.

[Monkey]

That sounds pretty interesting Hawk. hmmmmmm wonder how it tastes.

[amanda]

I'm printing out this thread. And now I'll have to go get ingredients to make one of these! Yum!! I think my ice-cream maker will still work. :)

[pEtAl mIsFiT]

tomato and watermelon who would of thunk it?????

I would of never put those two together either hawk

[Hermione]

Just got off the phone with my mom, and got the proportions for her buttermilk sherbet. It's one quart of buttermilk, one "medium size" can of pineapple, and about a half cup of sugar. Mix and put in a flat container (she uses an 8x8 baking pan) cover and freeze. She said do NOT try to use pineapple "in its own juice" -- it will not work. Then she said, "I have some buttermilk, let's make some . . ." Yum, yum!

[Kitty]

I think MH needs a Recipe forum. :)

[bpitt]

My favorite homemade frozen goodness is the margarita buckets, ya know, just add tequila, pour it in the bucket, and let it freeze.

[dasmybaby]

I'm going to show my age here - but since you all know my age, I guess it doesn't matter.

My fondest memories of homemade ice cream are those centered around 'sitting on the freezer.' For some of you older guys, you know what I mean.

These memories are long before we had 'electric' freezers or those frozen kind you keep in the freezer ready at a moment's notice. These were the days of the old brown wooden plank, hand-crank models. Every Sunday afternoon in the summer, at my grandmother's house, all my dad's brothers and sisters would bring their ice cream freezers. The aunts would spend a good hour getting all the recipes ready after a big lunch. Then into the freezers those tin cans would go - into 5 or 6 freezers. The ice and salt would come next followed by a folded bath towel on top of the freezer.

We cousins would dance around getting in line to take turns ''sitting" on the ice cream freezer while an uncle turned and turned the crank. After about 20 minutes, the uncles would have to trade off because the cranks would get so hard to turn - that meant we were close to being ready to eat. And if the freezer you were sitting on was the first to be ready, well, you just knew it was because you had sat juuuuuust right on that freezer.

To this day, I'm not sure why we did this. Does anyone know? Hawk? But, we did and it was always the best ice cream ever - and the best memories of making homemade ice cream! The invention of the electric freezer took away that kind of pleasure for the generations that came after me. If I asked my son to sit on a freezer today, he'd think I was crazy!

i'm a 20 something and i even remember doing this....but then, my mom is almost 65......... we had the handcrank ones for the longest! i still miss it.....

[Monkey]

Yeah. . . . Dad is making some of that thin mint ice cream tomorrow!!!!!

[jmb]

I just got finished copying all these tempting recipes. :)

Hawk, you mentioned the watermelon-tomato sorbet. Did you see the other dish (http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1634657) with those two ingredients? I believe it was a salad. It looked very good. :)

[EricStratton]

Y'all need a forum or group for all this crap so the rest of us don't have to read it.

[Baloo]

QM, your recipe is exactly how my grandmother taught me to make it! It is wonderful!

Thanks everyone for sharing all of this yummy stuff!