How To Spend $18 On Homemade Ice Cream

Posted on 06.03.07 in Parenthood and there are 10 comments.

Rock salt ------------------- $5
Ice -------------------------- $3
Whipping Cream -------- $3
Half and Half ------------- $2
Milk ------------------------- $2
Reeses peanut butter cups - $3
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2 quarts of ice cream === $18

Having your kids suggest we just “buy” ice cream = PRICELESS

Last week I spent $18, an hour and a half of my time and my last nerve trying to “make a memory” for my kids.

It took me 20 minutes to read the directions and figure out how the contraption worked. Then I suffered from third degree frostbite whilst layering the ice and rock salt in the bucket.  My kids tried to eat the rock salt, suck on the ice chips and stick their fingers in the moving motor.

But when I told my kids they will have to wait an hour for the ice cream to churn, their reply was, “We have a great idea mommy....why don’t we just BUY ice cream!”

Yeah. Maybe next time we’ll just do that…

(We did have a great time once it was ready, though. Several of the neighborhood kids came over and we all ate icecream on the back patio.)

Do you have any fond memories of making ice cream?

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I do have fond memories of summers at my grandparents house with my cousins eating my grandparents home made peach ice cream.  We could hear the loud whirl of the ice cream machine throughout the evening, and loved the moment it stopped and we could lick the beaters.  They lived on a peach farm, so it was very fresh and very delicious.  We’d eat it out of plastic cups out on their back patio.... good times....

nothing like now, with my experience trying to make it myself as well.  Sounds very similar to yours.  It’s pricey and seems so complicated!  It’s much easier to buy it or have Grandpa make it for you!

Absolutely.  My father still makes homemade peach and/or strawberry ice cream for special family events.  I had no idea it cost so much though.

Kristin,
I really don’t think there is anything I love more than a really good peach. I just seem to be terrible at picking out good peaches at the store. It must have been awesome to visit your grandparents on a peach farm and eat all the fresh peaches you wanted. YUM.

Rick,
Well...it wouldn’t have cost so much if I hadn’t bought the wrong amount of a couple of ingredients. Still, though, I think that buying premade icecream is probably cheaper.

Peach ice cream sure is popular. I’ll have to try that.

I loved the whirling sound of the machine… it always meant that it was summer and people were over or coming soon.

However, I never liked the taste of homemade ice-cream!  I always thought it tasted watery and chunky.  So, I was always a little disappointed with the end result.  Perhaps we didn’t have a good recipe.  I’m sure the process has improved since I was a kid.

Good times…

I’ve never had homemade ice cream, my mom always thought things like that were too messy.  I did have a Snoopy Snow Cone maker when I was kid, though, and I loved it!

I think we had a few summers when I was a kid, growing up in Houston, where my parents had an ice cream machine. It was delicious! And of course, very refreshing during a typical Houston summer.

When I helped my parents move this spring, they still had the old ice cream machine stored in a box in their storage shed. They were hoping we could keep it, and mentioned how much they enjoyed that period of time in our lives (probably the age of us kids and all the good memories of that era in general), but we ended up not bringing it because it was way too old and dusty and rusty, and looked like the box had been providing a nice home for rodents or something.

Oh well. That’s why God made Blue Bell.

HEY!  We didn’t hear about the ice cream party!  What’s up, neighbor!!  Hee hee!  Just kidding - we were probably out of town.  But it sounds like it was fun!

C-Hammer,
Yum, Blue Bell.

SAM,
We still have more ice cream and the pools are all set up. Come on over!

Are you the “Kat” who commented on my blog about running a half marathon in Austin?  It took me a while to find you (if this is you, after all!).  Anyway, I think it’s a great idea, and I’m only about 4 hours away from Austin--that is workable!  If you’d like, you can email me someime--I’d love to know where you are.

Regarding this post:  I LOVE homemade ice-cream, and my husband is a pro at it! 

Lisa,
Yep, that’s me. I don’t know why blogger isn’t showing my profile...sorry I was so hard to find.

I’ll send you an email about the race.

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