I brought a crate of peaches to Brookings, and for some reason, I started thinking about peach ice cream. That led to the memory of a friend of mine telling me about some ice cream she had made with a special ice cream maker she had just bought-a Ninja Creami.
Well, wouldn’t you know that the Brookings Walmart had one of those, so I bought it, and Grandson and I have had the best time this week making ice cream. He assisted in making all the mixes and running the machinery. The mixes were mainly cream and flavorings, but no eggs.
The whole premise of this contraption is that you can make a small amount of ice cream quickly after the mix has been in the freezer over night. The mixes are easy and don’t need to be cooked. Then, you put the container in the machine, which sends a whirly blade into the frozen mixture and tuns it into ice cream or sorbet.
We made lemon sorbet, coffee ice cream, peach ice cream, strawberry ice cream, vanilla ice cream, and mixed berry sorbet. Grandson quickly figured out how to get the thing set up. He was so proud and happy seeing his parents eat the ice cream he had made. He said the coffee ice cream was his favorite.
I remember family members struggling with ice, salt, and noisy electric or hand cranked ice cream makers. Boy, it tasted good, though, but it was quite a production. This was easy. Too easy!
What are your favorite ice creams? Memories of ice cream making? Ever seen the musical She Loves Me?
Trail Baboon 
The stores in town stayed open until 9 on Wednesday nights, the night Saturday Evening Post came out, a ritual purchase in our family. We had little spare change. We would people watch, wonder around a bit, just relax, another rare commodity in our family. Then we would buy the magazine and ice cream, which we would eat as soon as we got home, five of us consumed it on the spot, at first because we had no electricity and no freezer.
Clyde
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Nice ritual.
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I love all sorts of ice cream flavors so I can’t pick a favorite. I do think Breyer’s vanilla is one of the best vanilla’s I’ve eate. My folks used to take us to Coffman Union back in the late ’50s to get ice cream made on the St. Paul campus (the Farm campus). Probably my first ice cream even and oh-so-good!
We also had an old handcranked ice cream maker in the 60s and made ice cream once or twice per summer. We kids thought it was fun to turn the crank and felt important. I’m sure Mom & Dad were happy to let us do the work.
Never saw that musical. Never heard of it until now, unless it’s not ringing a bell of recognition. Wouldn’t be a big surprise. 🙂
Chris in Owatonna
Happy Labor Day to all the worker bees out there!
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I brought up the musical because of a song ftom it “He Bought Me Ice Cream”. The musical is what the film”You’ve Got Mail” is based on.
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It follows a string of movies too. Shop Around the Corner, why her bookstore is called that. In the Good Old Summer Time.
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Breyers Natural Vanilla is the best!
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I scream. You scream. We all scream
for ice cream.
Chocolate for sure.
Crushing the ice was always good fun.
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Renee, SDSU sells ice cream made on campus for low prices, sometimes inventive flavors. It was an expected treat for our kids when we visited family in Brookings and for our grandkids.
Clyde
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Our grandson really likes that ice cream, too.
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No ice cream machine growing up. I know I paint Nonny in a poor light but if it didn’t come out of a can or a container pre-made, it rarely made it onto our dining table. YA and I actually have two ice cream freezers; there were times when we wanted to make ice cream more than once in a two day period and one freezer just didn’t cut the mustard.
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We almost always make some variation of vanilla and then we can add to it what we want. There is one lemon recipe I like quite a bit. My favorite ice creams have always been vanilla with chocolate – chocolate chips, cookies & creams, fudge ripples, etc. I am inordinately fond of Moose Tracks (vanilla w/ fudge and chopped up peanut butter cups) – in fact, this can only come in the house rarely as I can eat a whole container in just a few days if I’m not careful!
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My mother would make ice cream on July 4 with an old wooden hand crank maker more for nostalgia and to teach her children. I think she did before electricity but I remember after. But she always said it was just as expensive and all that effort so she might as well buy it. That was from cheap Adeline.
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we were traveling shortly after my first son was born to Durango, Colorado and stopped in an ice cream shop and gave him at age 2 months. His first taste of what life was all about prior to that he had only had formula and upon having the first tiny spoonful of ice cream, his eyes exploded, and he started laughing, realizing that life was much more than formula, he ended up eating most of the ice cream and it was good
my own experience with ice cream is that I used to love the chocolate chocolate chip from Häagen-Dazs along with a tub of real peanut butter chunky please and kind of made my own Reese‘s peanut butter cups. They were delicious that was 35 years ago about 10 or 15 years ago I tried some ice cream and doubles up in a cramped knot and realized that I had developed lactose intolerance and that ice cream was more painful than pleasurable. I still have it on occasion, but in small quantities and usually just before going to bed, hot fudge peanut butter is my favorite request but hot fudge doesn’t seem to exist in ice cream form only in topping for ice cream like a chocolate chocolate chip with some peanut butter would be my first choice today I used to have one of those wooden bucket ice cream makers with the silver canister that went inside with an electric plug on it that you would surround with ice and salt and I think I made ice cream in it twice, and it was such a pain in the butt that it was better than the old hand crank that my grandmother had but not enough better that it ever became a common practice. I did deliver one of those icemakers ice cream makers to a guy who said this was his second one he had made it so often that he had burned out the first one and it was the best thing ever so if you’re an ice cream person that might be the way to go .
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Agree about the Häagen-Dazs…
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Gimme MORE o’ DAT.
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My parents got an electric one, but it was kind of a hassle and only rarely used. I remember them thinking getting ice out of the creek in the winter time was easier because we never had enough ice otherwards.
And dad would bring up a bucket of salt from the 50lb bag of cow salt. But it sure was good.
There’s a church group in town that has a pink bus and they sell gelato in the summer. That’s good stuff too.
Kelly and I will be at “Wait Wait” tonight. Anyone else going?
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Ooh, what fun – Wait Wait – you’ll have to tell us about that.
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Good for you. I am officially jealous!
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This is Ben- didn’t realize I was posting anymously…
We Just saw two men in MAGA hats posing for pictures in front of the stage, and several of us said, wait, what?? They’re in the wrong place!
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Anything with peanut butter in it. Our friend W introduced us to that long before the dairies were adding it – just top a hefty dollop of PB on the top of whatever ice cream you’ve got!
Our first summer in the Trailer Court (1958 – I was 10), the couple in the next trailer to ours had a hand crank ice cream maker, and I remember a handful of us sitting around in our aluminum lawn chairs and took turns cranking it. No idea what flavor but it was SO good, from the actual taste and the group effort.
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Just for fun.
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Rise and Shine, Baboons, I am down in Central Iowa for several days. There is an ice cream store, The Creamery with in blocks of my sister’s house. All of thay ice cream is good. I have declared the Pumphouse on Chicago Ave my fave–their rhubarb, chocolate flecked chocolate, sea salt caramel and honey berry-raspberry crisp are all outstanding flavors.
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Is The Creamery in Ames by chance?
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No, Polk City
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Whew! I just arrived with DIL and grandson at a rental cabin on Ottertail Lake Husband and Son are making their ways here from Dickinson and Brookings and should arrive by 11:00 pm.
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Have a fun weekend!
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With ice cream flavors, it’s hard to narrow it down. But the one I’ve bought most often in the last few years is available at Aldi stores. It’s called Thank You Cherry Much.
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I’ll watch for that.
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