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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I make a lot homemade of ice cream , more in the winter, I use snow in stead of ice. It so good, just like the soft ice cream turkey hill makes in there cartons.I love to share the homemade ice cream , with family and friends.
I much prefer my own recipe for indulgence:
1 – Go to Turkey Hill. Buy favorite flavor.
2 – Go home and get a spoon.
3 – Enjoy!
Yes, we made ice cream churning the ingredients , then went to an electric ice cream maker. Now, just go to Turkey Hill store, buy what flavor I want, Moose tracks, butter pencan, etc.So much easier
Thank goodness we have Turkey Hill to take the work out of such a pleasure!
Don’t have the time or patience to make my own ice cream. Turkey Hill has anything I could ever want in the way of ice cream!
Sounds like too much work and waiting time when it is somuch easier to store in our freezers and enjoy ice cream whenever the mood strikes.
I was surprised to read in the comments that someone had never had homemade! It is a special treat, so I hope you will get to try it someday. Honestly, I buy my ice cream, but even my kids have gotten to try homemade.
Okay, I had an ice cream machine, given as a gift back in the 1950’s (yikes). I could never get it to make ice cream but I had fun trying. Now, all grown up, I don’t have the time or the patience for it so I will continue to buy my Turkey Hill in the store and enjoy it.
I find it’s so much easier to go the grocery store and pick up some Turkey Hill. You guys do the churning so well.
In our married life we have never attempted to make our own ice cream. Our 37 year old son has successfully made delicious ice cream – however it is so convenient to buy it at the store.
I remember my mother and grandmother making it (also on the back porch) and we took turns churning. When my kids were young, we took fresh snow and mixed it with milk (or cream), sugar and vanilla — they loved that, too. We recently got rid of our electric IC maker ’cause it’s so much easier to go buy our favorite TH flavors!
I have an old-fashioned ice-cream maker. I can make one gallon at a time. When I first got it I used it at least a few times every summer (as long as I remembered to pick-up some rock-salt during the winter). I would make ice cream with whatever fruits were in season (strawberry, blueberry, peach, etc). I also experimented with making green-tea ice cream (most Japanese restaurants carry this flavor). I have not made any ice cream lately, I’m too busy and I enjoy the taste and variety of Turkey Hill ice cream.
We can beat the summer heat
If cool ice cream we would eat!
It is amazing that they could make ice cream at all in those days. They had the food cellars where they stored their dairy products and used the ice that had been cut from the rivers in the spring in large chunks.
Homemade Ice cream…brings back great memories of my childhood…going to my cousins house on Saturday night. they lived on a farm and we got to help crank the ice cream…made of course with fresh dairy milk and fruit from the farm.
We had a great surprise at our family reunion a few weeks agao ….my cousins husband arrived with 3 ice cream freezers and treated us to Chocolate, Vanilla and the most awesome Peanut Butter ice cream. I got to lick the Peanut Butter beater.And coincidentally there was homemade pie to go with the ice cream. Who could ask for any thing better. Hopefully this becomes a yearly reunion tradition.
If you haven’t tried homemade ice cream you don’t no what your missing
It’s a liitle bit of work but worth every bite.
So I have never really been a fan of fruity flavored ice cream because I like the chocolate and vanilla, or caramel or other rich kinds like that and the fruit kind just made it seem to healthy. I might try the Mango Duetto kind though…and if I like that then I can try making some of my own, because with all this ice cream I should balance out my diet with some healthy fruit!
Think I will just go to the store and pick up some duetto. I have enver made ice cream but I am sure homemade ice cream is delicious.
we used to make homemade ice cream for every special occasion when i was little. but my parents are older now and they don,t do it anymore. isure wish i had the receipe to make it because it was good. but getting turkey hill ice cream is good to and alot easier to make.
my husband’s family used to make ice cream as a huge treat in the summer. they had a dairy cow and would make the ice cream from the sweet cream they had left over. I never got to taste it, but he says there is nothing like it, nothing tastes as good (although Turkey Hill comes close!
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Kristin
Thank Goodness for Turkey Hill,
We have more time to enjoy the rich flavors without all the hard work .
I think I’ll stick with my turkey hill.
All that cranking sounds exhausting!!!
I have great memories of making ice cream at home whenever my grandparents would visit. I haven’t made it for years, but thanks for bringing up the memories. I love Turkey Hill.
Even though it is a lot of work, the results are worth it – especially when the whole family gets involved. Lovely memories.
This story reminds me of when they used to make homemade ice cream at my church. I thougt turning that handle was so fun until I finally got a turn to do it myslef. but, it was worth the fatigue on my arm. It tasted oh, so good. But, you only got a little because EVERYBODY wanted some.
We make ice cream each summer via the tin can method while camping or when we are up at the “farm” home. It tastes great and now my grandkids have fun rolling the cans across the table with grandma. Turkey Hill still has the best flavors, but our Tin Can ice crean is a good second. Esp our mint chocolate chip.
We make it but it is very time consuming and expensive,and Turkey Hill it is not
I made ice cream many years ago when I was a Girl Scout. It was fun but you ended up only getting a taste so there would be enough for everyone. Much easier to go to the store and buy Turkey Hill and that way everyone can enjoy their favorite flavor.
It’s funny that you are printing this now because my grandchildren just made ice cream at our local library. We are going to make some at home (just a little) and we will have our favorite on hand; Turkey Hill of course. The pints are great because we can have several flavors in less space.
I used to make ice cream like that when I was little.
Summer is the best time for making homemade ice cream. The noisy maker gets to sit outside while we sit in the air conditioning.
The Amish were making ice cream over the weekend at a benefit auction…outdoors…and it was at least 95 degrees outside!!
Never have tried making homemade ice cream…seems like a lot of trouble to me, so I will just buy my Turkey Hill Ice Cream and be happy……..
Does Turkey Hill know that it doesn’t have to be a hot steamy day/night to enjoy their ice cream…. Rain, SUnny, snow any day and weather Turkey Hill is the best!!
No time for making icecream…I’d rather just enjoy my Turkey Hill!
I’ve had homemade but hey! why bother when I can pick up different flavors for everyone from Turkey Hill without breaking a sweat?
I have never made homemade ice cream but I have enjoyed some made by others. Delicious!! I let others do the work and I volunteer to be on the taste test panel!!!
I made icecream once with a hand crank maker. It was very good, a lot of work and prep, and why settle for a ho hum homemade flavor when I can experience the flavor rainbow with the all the incredible flavors from Turkey Hill!
I did homemade once, but wasnt worth the prep time, and you dont get that much, but heh why knock myself making a ho hum flavor when I can experience the icecream flavor rainbow from Turkey Hill!
It sounds like a lot of work. I’ll stick my favorite Turkey Hill flavors.
How I remember making ice cream in a ice cream maker. We lived on a farm, so we had most of the ingredients. My sisters and brother would take turns cranking it, but the best part was the test tasting. We had no recipe, so it was a surprise everytime. Loved those days.
wow! 1718…i had no idea ice cream was that old!
It is MUCH easier to purchase yummy Turkey Hill ice cream – though I do make my own occasionally!
I sail every year on one of the Maine windjammers The Mary Day out of Camden Maine & always one of the highlights of the last supper on board is 2 kinds of homemade ice cream that we have taken turns cranking out on deck !!!!served complete with all the fixing/toppings.Brings back memories of making ice cream when I was a kid…
As a child, we made homemade ice cream at least a half dozen times a summer with a hand crank freezer. I now have an electric freezer (so much less work!) and I’ve made it 3 times already this summer – fresh strawberry, banana, and good ‘ole vanilla. It’s absolutely delicious and so creamy! However, I just bought the Turkey Hill Jr. Mint ice cream last week and I must say it’s super-duper good!!
interesting, they said to “just set it in the cellar”, I wonder when cranking the cream came into practice?
I always made Mint Chocolate Chip and Cofee with my 2 boys when they were small. It is much easier to buy Turkey Hill!
I have been toying with the idea of making my own ice cream for many years, but the thought of buying all that stuff, especially the strange kind of ice or rock salt or something always discouraged me. And I don’t have any straw?
Much easier to go and buy Turkey Hill by the gallons. 
I was given a ‘ball’ that makes ice cream. Put the ingredients in the container and ice around it, close the ball, and roll it around. Makes about a pint. easy enough to take camping or on a picnic. The dog helps with the rolling.
Last year while we were camping, a lady in the campground came and asked if we would like some homemade ice cream! Who could turn it down? It was part of her daughter’s birthday requests and we felt lucky to have been included in the celebration.
Yes, I remember my family on the back porch– cranking my grandfather’s ice cream maker. We didn’t worry about cholesterol then!
My brother and sister-in-law were here on Fri. night. My SIL is from Belfast, N. Ireland. I just read the article about Ice Cream Ireland it is very interesting. When my DB and SIL come to visit they always bring pie or cake. This time I put Turkey Hill Ice Cream on the pie for them, it was the Peach Mango Smoothie. OMG they enjoyed it so much, it really goes well with peach pie. I bet the Jr. Mint is wonderful on Choc. Cake, must do that next. Linda