Homemade Ice Cream

Years and years ago I bought an old fashioned electric ice cream machine at a yard sale in California. I dragged it down here along with some rock salt. We have never used it. Jordan and Bob lobbied for ice cream so we dragged it out to see what we could do. The pictures below describe the process in action. We are in our outdoor room upstairs which we call the Rancho. Gitti is the blur on the right.

 

Mike is keeping track of the chilling time. It is supposed to take about 20 minutes.

Bob is smashing up ice. Mike is pulling the cord out whenever the ice jams around the edges because the chunks are too big. Jordan is loosening the jammed ice. Then Mike plugs it in again. Except for the ice smashing, the processing isn't too bad.

It took maybe 30 minutes in the end. We added cracked up chocolate chips and set the mixture into the freezer to harden. Yum. We still have half a bucket to eat today.