Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
This is my grandmother’s recipe, as shown in her handwritten recipe below. She died in 1956, so this was likely written sometime in the 1940s. Obviously, I never met her but I was given her cookbooks by my aunt who had them and it’s the best, most thoughtful gift I’ve ever been given.
I’m baking my way through it, though with recipes with sugar, I use them as a special treat which is how they were used when she was making them.
I was surprised at how easy it is to make homemade ice cream, though I have the KitchenAid ice cream attachment that my grandmother didn’t have.
My grandmother's handwritten ice cream recipe:
I don’t typically like vanilla ice cream, I think it’s sacrilege as a chocolate lover, but this is delicious!
Instructions:
Crack egg whites into a mixing bowl
Place egg yolks into another mixing bowl
Add one pint of heavy whipping cream into yet another bowl
Mix each separately with hand mixer
Mix them together and add sugar and vanilla
Take the freezer bowl out of the freezer and attach to kitchenmaid mixer
Lower the tilt-head to meet the dasher
Lock the tilt-head
Turn on Stir, the lowest setting on the mixer
Then add the ice cream base mixture
Let it churn for 20-30 minutes
Enjoy immediately as soft-serve or place in a separate freezer container to make hard ice cream
Egg yolks, whites, whipping cream, sugar, vanilla
Freezer bowl has been in the freezer for 24 hours
Immediately enjoy as soft serve
Freeze to make hard ice cream