Best Ever Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe at the Lake House!

Old Fashioned High Tech Ice Cream Maker

Hot summer days at the Lake House resulted in an Ice Cream Recipe that is so good......we had to make it again!   We would be remiss if we didn't share it with you.  This recipe is the perfect blend for a hot humid summer day! 
My travel companion (educated in the culinary arts) and I were so pleased with the outcome of our first ever homemade vanilla ice cream that I had to give it a name.  A Most Excellent Vanilla Blend, that's what I think it should be called.  Simply by adding Hershey's Chocolate Syrup,  A Most Excellent Chocolate Blend is created.  For all of the caramel loving humans Hershey makes caramel too and the only possible result would be A Most Excellent Caramel Blend!
Here's what you need:

Everything you need except for eggs pictured here

1/2 Gallon Half and Half (liquid measure)

1 1/4 cup sugar (dry measure)

3 beaten eggs with the shells removed

2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 

1 can sweetened condensed milk

and the paste from one vanilla bean (a.k.a. vanilla caviar)

Here's what you do:

Make sure the sugar is dissolved in the Half and Half, add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.  Place this mixture in the centrally located metal can inside of your old fashioned (with electric motor technology) ice cream maker.  Surround metal can with ice and salt and ice and salt and ice and salt.  Be sure you do not get salt into your ice cream mixture.  Plug it up or turn it on (or crank it if you have to) and let it run until it stops.  Mom would also put a towel over the top of the ice wrapped around the motor to insulate the top.  In 20 minutes remove the towel, top off the ice, and add another layer of salt.  Replace the towel.   According to Mom, "It takes about 35 minutes to freeze." 

Note:  Time to freeze could vary depending on salt content (we used a little over 1/2 box of ice cream salt) and model (electric or manual crank).  So use your best judgement based on manufacturers recommendation to determine when the ice cream is "done" and be careful not to get salt in the ice cream when you remove the inner metal can from the salt/ice mixture. 

Open the top and get each of your friends a BIG bowl, then make yourself a bowl (a big one) add your favorite toppings (if desired) and enjoy! 

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