Homemade Ice Cream - Southern Style Recipe

Ingredients

* Lots of milk
* Whipping cream
* Junket
* Vanilla
* Sugar
* Salt
* Eggs - Lots-o-Eggs
* Hand Crank Ice Cream Mixer
* Ice
* Rock Salt

Directions

Here you find two recipes .. one for eggless ice cream and the ice cream with eggs. Personally, I like the eggless one the best. It seems healthier and a lot easier to make. You may find Junket in your grocery store and located in the sugar isle. Make and enjoy.

Eggless Recipe

Eggless Recipe Ingredients

2 quarts Milk
2 cups Whipping Cream
2 cups Sugar
4 tablespoons Vanilla
4 Junket Tablets (found in your grocery store)

This is the recipe my mom made and believe me there were not ever any leftovers.

Dissolve junket tablets in cold water. Mix milk, sugar and salt and heat to lukewarm. Add water and junket mixture, chill, add cream, vanilla and freeze. Add any fruit you wish if you do not want plain vanilla.

With Eggs

1 quart whipping cream
1 quart + 3 cups whole milk
12 egg Yolks
4 tablespoons vanilla
3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons salt

Scald milk in a large 6 quart saucepan. In a large bowl, beat together egg yolks and salt. Add about 3 cups of the hot milk to the egg yolks slowly while stirring constantly. Then return this mixture to the milk in the pan. Add sugar and keep stirring while cooking at medium heat. When mixture coats the spoon or just starts to boil, remove from heat. In most cases, the mix will be lumpy. No worry. Just remember to strain out the lumps when you pour it into the canister. You will have lots of left over egg whites. Use them for Baked Alaska, Lemon Milk Sherbet, or make some meringue shells to serve ice icream in.

This is a delicious, catering-quality custard ice cream. Please notice that it uses a ratio of approximately 2 parts milk to 1 part of cream. By substituting additional cream for some of the milk, it can be made even richer.

NOTE: Junket is little white tablets that can be found in the "birthday and baking" section or the grocery. They used to come about 10 to a "wooden" tube(like Advil in plastic tubes) .. I collected the tubes as a kid.

Also, this ice cream is best made in a "hand-cranked" ice cream maker. For that, you will need lots-o-ice and "rock salt". As a kid, the parents would crank, while my siblings and I would sit on burlap and news papers on the mixer to hold it steady.