Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

• five quarts will be just about right
• the cream
• the milk
• 2 large bowlfuls of broken ice
• 1 bowlful of coarse salt
• the berries were put on the large table

Method

1. 1

   Hull strawberries and put them in bowls on ice.

2. 2

   Bring cream and milk from the refrigerator.

3. 3

   Pack the ice cream freezer with layers of broken ice and salt.

4. 4

   Stand it away covered for half an hour.

5. 5

   Then add the prepared cream mixture.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

strawberry ice-cream would 91 92 THE FUN OF COOKING be jnst the thing, with some cake to go with it, and something cold to drink; is that about what you had thought off ** Just exactly, Mother. But do you think we can make enough ice-cream here at home for twenty people! Wouldn't it be better to buy it!'' *^0h, I am sure we can easily make it, and home-made ice-cream is so good — ^better, I think, than we could buy. We can borrow Miss Betty's freezer, which holds two quarts, and as ours holds three, that will be plenty. We count that a quart will serve about seven, — ^more cook- ing arithmetic, Mildred! If one quart will be enough for seven people, how many quarts will be needed for twenty!" **The answer is that five quarts will be just about right, ' ' laughed Mildred. * ' Perhaps some of them will want two helpings. But, Mother, if we have the party on Saturday, Norah will be very busy, and who will make the cream!" **We will all make it together, and Jack may pack the freezers and turn them for us. And Norah may make the cake for you on Friday, so that wiU be out of the way. ' ' So, early on Saturday morning, Mildred and Brownie began to hull strawberries for the MILDRED ^S SCHOOL PARTY 93 party and put them away in bowls on the ice. Then they made the table all ready on the porch, putting a pretty little cloth on it, and arranging plates and napkins ; glasses, for what Brownie called the * ' nice-cold drinks, * ' were set out too, and little dishes of the candy which Father Blair had brought home and called his contribution to the party; and in the middle of the table they put a bowl of lovely red roses. After an early luncheon, everybody went at once to the kitchen. The berries were put on the large table, and the cream and milk brought from the refrigerator. The two freezers stood ready in the laundry with a big pail for the broken ice, a heavy bag, a wooden mallet, and a large bag of coarse salt. *^Come, Jack,'* his mother said, as he stood picking out the biggest berries from the bowl and eating them, **here *s some more man's work for you ! We want you to break the ice and pack these freezers for us. ' ' **What do I get for itT' Jack asked, pretend- ing to grumble. **If the girls are going to eat up all the ice-cream, I guess I won't bother freezing it. ' ' **No, indeed, they are not going to eat it all up," said Mother Blair. **I am counting on 94 THE FUN OF COOKING having ever so much left over for dinner to- night ; and you shall have two helpings. * ' **Make it three and I '11 think about it/' said Jack, choosing the very biggest berry of all. '^ Three then,'' said Mildred, disgustedly, tak- ing the bowl away. * * Boys do eat so much ! ' ' * ^ This cream is going to be so good that you will want three yourself," laughed Mother Blair. * * Now, Jack, this rule is for you. Some cooks think that all you have to do in packing a freezer is to put in layers of broken ice and salt, and then turn the handle; but there is a right way to do it, and if you follow this, you will find the cream will freeze ever so much more quickly than if you are careless in pack- ing." PACKING A FREEZER 2 large bowlfuls of broken ice. 1 bowlful of coarse salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.