How to Make Homemade Ice Cream on a Stove Top
The old-fashioned way to make ice cream is to cook a custard-like mixture on the stove top before pouring in cream and putting the whole thing in the crank-style ice-cream freezer. There is no way to purchase the taste of this ice cream, especially if you are the one to turn the crank while it is actually becoming the ice cream. The directions below describe exactly how to make one quart of this delicious frozen treat. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- heavy saucepan
- wooden spoon
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 egg yolks, beaten
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups chilled whipping cream
- crank-type ice-cream freezer
- ice
- rock salt
Instructions
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Combine milk, sugar, salt and egg yolks in saucepan. Place on stove over medium heat. Stir constantly just until bubbles form around the side. This is known as scalding the milk mixture. Remove from heat.
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Cool to room temperature in the pan. Stir in vanilla extract and whipping cream.
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Pour into ice-cream freezer can, put in paddle and secure lid. Place in freezer bucket and attach crank. The ice-cream freezer should be fully assembled now. If your freezer requires different assembly, follow the directions specific to the freezer you have.
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Fill tub half full of ice and add a layer of rock salt. Alternate layers of ice and rock salt until tub is filled. The ratio of ice to salt should be about six parts ice to one part salt.
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Crank the freezer, adding more ice and salt as it melts, until it is hard to turn it. This usually takes about half an hour or so.
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Drain the tub and remove the ice-cream freezer can. Take off the top and remove the paddle. Pack the ice cream down into the bottom with a wooden spoon.
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Place the can in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator for two or more hours. Serve.
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Tips & Warnings
You can use the ice-cream maker attachment on a stand mixer, or an electric ice-cream maker, instead of the crank-style ice-cream freezer. It's not as fun, though.
Make chocolate ice cream by increasing the sugar to one cup and decreasing the vanilla extract to 1 teaspoon. Add two ounces melted unsweetened chocolate into the hot milk in the saucepan.
Make strawberry ice cream by decreasing vanilla extract to one teaspoon. Stir in a 16-ounce package of thawed, frozen strawberries after adding the cream. Use a couple of drops of red food coloring to enhance the color.
