One of the earliest printed recipes for ice cream came from the book, Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts. The book was a collection of sweet recipes (or “receipts” as they were known back then), including the one below for ice cream (reprinted as close to its original language as possible). Feel free to give Mary’s fruit-flavored recipe a try at home…or you can just go to the store and pick up some Mango Duetto and call it a day!
To ice cream. Take Tin Ice-Pots, fill them with any Sort of Cream you like, either plain or sweeten’d, or Fruit in it; shut your Pots very close; to six Pots you must allow eighteen or twenty Pound of Ice, breaking the Ice very small; there will be some great Pieces, which lay at the Bottom and Top: You must have a Pail, and lay some Straw at the Bottom; then lay in your Ice, and put in amongst it a Pound of Bay-Salt; set in your Pots of Cream, and lay Ice and Salt between every Pot, that they may not touch; but the Ice must lie round them on every Side; lay a good deal of Ice on the Top, cover the Pail with Straw, set it in a Cellar where no Sun or Light comes, it will be froze in four Hours, but it may stand longer; than take it out just as you use it; hold it in your Hand and it will slip out. When you would freeze any Sort of Fruit, either Cherries, Raspberries, Currants, or Strawberries, fill your Tin-Pots with the Fruit, but as hollow as you can; put to them Lemmonade, made with Spring-Water and Lemmon-Juice sweeten’d; put enough in the Pots to make the Fruit hang together, and put them in Ice as you do Cream.
Making ice cream sure seemed like a lot of work back then, even though the process hasn’t changed much (we don’t use a lot of straw in our recipes today). Still, nothing beats home made ice cream. The only question is, does anyone still make ice cream at home?
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Thank you for sharing the recipe! It took me back to my childhood, when we’d visit my grandparents in Selinsgrove (PA), and my cousins and I would take turns cranking the handle of the ice cream maker. There was nothing better on a hot summer day than to dip into that delicious vanilla ice cream! It always gave me an instant brain freeze, too! Those were the days …..
We have a easy receipe to make ice creamathomewith the kids. It is made a freezer bag. I love ice cream I just ate two cones tonight. Totally knowI shouldn’t of but was really hungry!
YOu scream, I scream for ice cream!
It’s facinating that the origin is “To ICE cream” Makes sense, but I never thought of it that way.
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We used to make strawberry ice cream every Fourth of July using an electric freezer my mom bought with “plaid stamps” in the 60s. The freezer died about two years ago, but I’ll never forget the smooth, creamy texture of that ice cream coating the roof of my mouth…
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I made a choc. cake today and tried it with the Jr. Mint TH Ice Cream, it was great. I just love all the flavors TH has. Keep up the great job TH people. Linda
I got married 2 years ago and one of the few things I had to register for was a Kitchenaid stand mixer with the ice cream bowl attachment. Thankfully I got both and have made ice cream in it a few times already. I’m a big ice cream fan. It’s my dream job to taste-test new ice cream flavors. The flavors I’ve made so far are: vanilla, cinnamon, blueberry lemon and I’ll trying out 2 new recipes soon: honey, and then peaches swirled in vanilla ice cream that have been cooked in brown sugar, cinnamon, and little bit of brandy. Yum!
We make ice cream at home all the time! (http://scoopalicious.blogspot.com) In fact, if I can’t find Turkey Hill Mint Chocolate Chip Ice cream in my Hannaford freezer soon, I am going to have to ask you for the recipe so I can make it at home myself!!!!
Your ice cream is the best! We keep at least 4 containers on hand. Even when other s are on sale we buy Turkey Hill because nobody’s compares to your Philadelphia style ice creams.
[...] image for those who have never seen a hand-cranked icecream pail , And for those who would like an old-fashioned icecream recipe , here’s one from the originals – from Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts (’receipts’ [...]