The packing and moving we did at the old house was fun because we got to see an inventory of what all we have that we'll finally be able to enjoy and use at the farm when we move out there permanently.
Here is one of those items:
It's a White Mountain ice cream maker. It was my grandfathers, now it's mine. Now, it's not from like the 1920's or anything, ha, I think he bought it in the mid 70's when I used to spend summers with them. But I do remember grandma cooking the vanilla base on the stove top, the rock salt and ice, the towels around it, the cranking and that moment of taking the top off and taking the dasher out and OMG, just amazing.
I told 2nd Man that one of the first things I want to do (if we can since our house will be finished in the late Summer) is to get this out and sit on the porch and make some old fashioned homemade ice cream. We might have to just splurge for a special treat.
He approved. 😋
Time to look for some ice cream recipes we can use with our homemade vanilla!
growing up; that is what my dad always used in making the delicious homemade ice cream and mom made the chocolate sauce.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday 1st Man. Enjoy your day and have a fun and wonderful evening.
My uncle had a dairy farm. I'd spend weeks out there in the summer. One of my favorite memories are when my aunt would bring out the ice cream maker in the evening. My favorite was when she used fresh peaches out of the orchard. Almost as good as her blackberry cobbler - which hit the oven while the blackberries I'd picked were still warm from the sun, but that's a whole other Happy Story.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather had an old one like this but much older. It moved around a lot as the cream started to freeze. He would have one of us kids sit on the top to hold it in place. A cold job in 95-degree weather.
ReplyDeleteMy PaPaw used to use one to make homemade peach ice cream with peaches from his orchard.
ReplyDeleteLucky to have that brand! My mom and dad used to make homemade ice cream just as you described but I think theirs was electric. I loved to eat off of the paddles! (We called them paddles.) I love reading about everyone's ice cream/cobbler memories.
ReplyDeleteWow, that’s a beautiful ice cream maker! And so heartwarming as it was your grandpa’s.
ReplyDeleteWhat a “cool” idea to make ice cream when you first move into your new house! Making new special memories and recalling old wonderful childhood memories.
Making homemade ice cream always brings back such warm memories to me of family and relatives and warm summer evenings.