Recipes for Ice Cream?
 

I got a Ice Cream Maker for Mother's Day. I was wondering if anyone had any recipes or tips on making Ice Cream. It doesn't come with a recipe book. . . :( Also stuff that's healthy as well as fun. I'm on a diet and would love to make 'healthy ice cream' if there is such a thing, but also fun sweet stuff for the kids -- so please any and all recipes wanted and appreciated!!

we must think alike, i just posted a thread on icecream makers and or
frozen yogurt makers, just two threads up from this one... i just looked on line for recipes. they have a few i printed out.... i want to get a frozen yogurt
maker, i think they are one in the same... let me know how you like it, i think i want to get one...

I got the Ben & jerrys recipe book off Amazon-------- good stuff!!

In the meantime do a search on the web.;)

I'll do a search on google, and I'll let you know how our creations work out. Frozen yogurt sounds like a great idea! Lol, with that warm weather coming it's getting me in the mood, but I really need to stay on my diet, and I think yogurt will do the trick. I'll research, add you to my buddy list, and let you know what I discover. :)

Here's my favorite:

2 cans Pet or Carnation evaporated milk (NOT sweetened condensed milk)
7 eggs
3 cups sugar
4 Tablespoons flour
5 Tablespoons vanilla (if it is strong vanilla, reduce to 3 or 4)
milk to fill ice cream freezer

Some people do not cook their eggs and so you beat the eggs, add the evaporated milk and mix well together. Mix the sugar and flour together and stir into milk/egg mix till sugar is dissolved. Add vanilla and pour into ice cream freezer. Fill the freezer can to half way with regular milk (not evaporated milk) and freeze.

I cook my eggs so here's the way I make this recipe. I heat the evaporated milk and a couple cups of regular milk in a large pan - not to boiling - but until small bubbles form around the edges. Beat the eggs well and pour the eggs into the heated milk via a small stream, sirring well while the eggs are being poured into the heated milk (to keep from making scrambled eggs in the milk). Continue to stir and heat the egg/milk mix on medium heat (do not boil) until the mix coats the spoon. Take off the heat, add the sugar/flour mix and stir till dissolved and then add vanilla and cool in the fridge. Do not try to make ice cream from a hot or warm mix - it must cool completely before placing in the ice cream freezer. Put the cooled mix into the ice cream freezer, add milk to fill the can to 1/2 full and freeze.

Now, I make my ice cream from the same recipie, but I make it low fat and sugar free. I use fat free evaporated milk, skim milk, and splenda for the sugar. You could also use egg sugstitute - but I have not tried that. Of course, the resultant ice cream is not as rich and creamy as the whole fat/sugar recipie, but it is very good.

We have a large ice cream freezer and we make a full batch and then spoon the leftovers into 12 oz. plastic cups and put saran wrap held with a rubber band over the top. We put the cups in the refridgerator freezer to keep for several days. If you make the full fat recipie (using whole milk), then you can eat the leftover ice cream with a spoon out of the refridgerator freezer. If you use the low fat recipie, then you will need to put the cup in the microwave for 10-15 seconds to make it soft enough to eat.

Enjoy!

MMMM. . .yum! Sounds good just reading it! Thank you; we'll definately try it out! :)

I got an ice cream maker a few years ago because I LOVE ice cream and I have a ton of recipes...the only thing that I noticed is that it gets REALLY HARD after you put it in the freezer so you have to leave it out for a while to thaw a bit if you want to eat some.

Thanks for your recipe! When we cleaned out Mom's house, my son wanted my Dad's ice cream maker, but it didn't have a recipe with it. My dad used to make ice cream and have us all over and MmmmMmmmMmmm...it was always such a treat. I'll print off your recipe for my son so we can give that ice cream maker a try!

Jess, I will be over when you make some. I love home-made ice cream!
My mom makes it all the time, so I can get some of her recipes.
YUMMMMMMY!!!

how about some more recipes girls.. i really only like vanilla .
was that recipe for vanilla???

You're, of course, welcome anytime. But. . . you'll have to bring Mojo with you, lol, have to have house rules, ya know? ;)

Also, lucky you that your Mom makes it all the time. . . I remember my Great-Grandmother making it for reunions and get togethers -- I don't remember what she used to make it; I just remember a 2 or three big buckets of ice cream (lol, yes, I said bucket -- and the buckets were wood with metal interiors- weird, huh). Ohhhh, it was so good, she used to get very creative. You know, that's an idea, my Great-Grandmother has passed on, but I bet my Grandma might have some of her old recipes. . . I should give her a call. :)

I'm pretty sure that was a vanilla recipe. :)

yummy yummy yummy

You just let me know and I will pile us all in the Yukon and head on over! (hee,hee):p

My mom had those wood/metal buckets until they fell apart a few years ago. I tried to find her some just like them, but couldn't - has anyone seen them??

I need to get one for me too.

I will call her when she gets home and find out any of her recipes. I think her machines had booklets w/ them - so hopefully, she still has them. I don't know if her new plastic one came w/ a booklet or not.

Yummy! I don't have a recipe, but LOVE homemade ice cream. I make my grandmother make it for me every year for my birthday.