"hob" > wrote in message news:...
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> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
> > Hi, I'm sure this topic has been addressed in one form or another on
> > the net. I've done some searching and found many threads about ice
> > cream.
> >
> > The question I pose is pretty specific (in my mind) though. Does
> > anyone else remember the vanilla ice cream that little old ladies made
> > at church functions / social events? I can envision a certain taste, a
> > certain texture that I still long for to this day. It's been at least
> > 15 years since I had such an ice cream.
>
> Yes - as I remember, having been to many and worked at them, they would
>
> 1) buy a commercial container and scoop it out of that
> - about 50 years back, they got it that cardboard can from the local
> creamery - where milk came in in cream cans. And Mr B made his ice cream
> out of the top cream. (his kid and I were in the same grade, his daughter
> babysat me, so I hung around the creamery a bit)
>
> 2) use a packaged mix made with beaters - don't remember the name, it
might
> have even been a pudding - they beat it up and froze it - and maybe
stirred
> it a couple times - but it was pretty much air.
>
> 3) the ladies were too busy with daily chores and kids to hand-crank ice
> cream for everybody - besides, making ice cream was man's and kid's work,
as
> I recall. It was a treat for special occasions, not a daily meal item.
> In our extended family (13 aunts/uncles on one side, 11 on the other,
not
> counting inlaws families of almost the same size), and in all the
gatherings
> where ice cream was made, no lady ever turned the ice cream crank.
> Hot day, nice clothes that were hard to clean and come by and little
> anti-perspirant - no female would be caught dead in a social gathering
doing
> work like that.
>
> as they used to say " horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow."
>
> Note that ice cream back then had the "milk's taste", a taste which varied
> with season depending on what the cow ate. Since cows in the summer were
on
> pasture, ice cream back then had the summer grass flavor.
>
> fwiw........
>
> >
> > In an attempt to recreate my childhood memory, I bought a "bachelor"
> > ice cream maker, VillaWare brand, but it's just not the same. Maybe
> > the maker has nothing to do with it.
> >
> > I'm using a simple vanilla recipe from a Ben and Jerry's recipe book.
> > Heavy whipping cream, milk, vanilla, sugar, eggs. Very
> > straightforward, but it comes nowhere near the taste I'm looking for.
> >
> > If there are any old church ladies who know how to help me, I
> > appreciate it! If I need to buy an old hand cranking machine and take
> > an hour to prepare the mixture, I'm willing to do it.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
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