Ingredients
2 each eggs, beaten well
4 tbsp flour
2 1/2 tbsp vanilla
3 cup sugar (less for 5 qt freezer
1 milk (about 1 gallon)
Directions
In saucepan, combine sugar and flour. Stir well to break up any
lumps. Add 2 to 3 cups milk and eggs. Cook, stirring constantly,
until thick (usually until it comes to a boil). Cool. Add vanilla.
Pour into freezer and add enough milk to fill freezer 2/3 to 3/4
full. It usually takes our ice cream freezer from 25-40 minutes to
get the ice cream done.
This is a recipe we've used in our family since the 1950's. I
hope you enjoy it as much as we have!
Typed for you by Sandi Cutright.
Servings: 6 quarts
Old-Fashioned Homemade Ice Cream Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Dessert; Ice Cream
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to trace the history of transcribed cooking instructions far back into distant history, in truth as far as the ancient Egyptians, and potentially, even further back. In practice though, generally, these early records were just simple pictorial recipes for preparing food.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe found, according to experts are some ancient tablets in ancient Sumerian describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. Progressing into The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius created some scripts which described recipes prepared by wealthy roman citizens. In his works, Apicius tells us how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into appetizers, main meal and desserts, something that is very familiar to us today. Additionally, he informs us how the ancient chefs used many spices, including a few you will know like thyme, fennel and parsley. Moving on, we find two interesting cookery books which date from the fourteenth century ; a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these two books are unconnected to the spicy food that appears on menues today, but instead accounts of the types of food enjoyed by the upper classes of that period. Later, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back many new spices and herbs from the Middle-East, including spices like parsley and basil. These new culinary innovations created an eruption in books on cooking, some of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. During the next few hundred years, the powerful and rich tried to lay on the most exotic banquets, and as a result the best chefs and their recipe collections became highly prized. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century that fine cooking and recipe publications reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to collating, testing, and writing down recipes to help cooks of their time. By the advent of the 1900s, cookbooks are increasing in popularity mostly due to increased literacy, people having increased spare time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Old Fashioned Homemade Ice Cream recipe.
