Ice cream is usually considered to be junk food.
And yes, if you are buying the stuff in the carton at the grocery store, then it definitely falls into the category of something we shouldn’t eat very often.
Many store-bought ice creams contain all sorts of fillers and chemicals– not to mention low-quality, skim milk.
However.
If you make homemade ice cream with quality ingredients, it almost turns into a ‘healthy food.’ Almost.
Since getting our dairy goats and milk cow, I’ve made (and eaten) a lot of homemade ice cream. It’s really the perfect homestead food when you are in those seasons of overflowing milk.
Many homemade ice cream recipes call for you to cook the ice cream base. While that step is not overly difficult, I try to avoid that for 3 reasons:
1. The cooking kills most of the beneficial bacteria and enzymes of the raw milk. Not a huge deal if you are swimming in fresh milk, but if you pay the big bucks for your raw milk, then you want to get as much benefit as possible from the rawness. (Is that a word?)
2. It heats up the house in the summer, and then requires a lengthy refrigeration time to bring the milk down to a cool temp.
3. It’s an extra step. I’m always busy. The more steps I can cut out, the better.
I’m not sure if this recipe would pass muster with an official ice cream connoisseur, since it doesn’t contain the traditional egg yolks of many other ice cream recipes. However, I could hardly tell any difference at all between this simple recipe, and the cooked, egg-yolk versions I’ve used in the past.
This is the perfect recipe if you need to whip up a batch of homemade ice cream in a hurry, or if you are feeding a large crowd and have lots of other prep to do.
Simple Homemade No-Cook Ice Cream
Yield: 1 quart
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 – 3/4 cups of sugar (feel free to use whatever organic sugar you prefer)
- 2 Tablespoons vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt (I like this one)
- 1 vanilla bean (optional- see note below)
Combine the milk, sugar, and vanilla beans (if using) in a blender.
Thoroughly blend until the vanilla bean is chopped into teeny tiny pieces.
Add the remaining ingredients and blend until everything is combined.
Place it in your ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer’s directions.
Serve immediately for soft-serve style, or place it in the freezer and allow it to harden for a while for a firmer result.
Kitchen Notes:
- Feel free to experiment with other sweetener options–I’ve added maple syrup and honey to mine in the past. They change the flavor a bit, but it’s still yummy.
- The vanilla beans are optional- however they do add a nice bit of extra flavor, as well as the classic “bean specks.” Since I make my own vanilla extract, I simply grab a few of the “spent” beans from one of my jars. They still have plenty of flavor, and I don’t have to use up my fresh beans.
- Since this recipe is completely uncooked, this is a good time to use your raw milk and cream, if you have them. If not, then try to choose the best quality milk you have available.
- I’m not currently milking our goats, so I haven’t tried this particular recipe with goat’s milk. However, in the past I’ve been able to use goat’s milk to substitute for 100% of the milk and cream in other recipes. So in this recipe, try using 4 cups of goat’s milk instead of the 2 cups of cream and 2 cups of milk.
- If I’m preparing a large meal, I like to make the ice cream base ahead of time (up to 24 hours) so it’s one less thing I have to worry about.
- This recipe only makes a quart. I always, always end up multiplying ice cream recipes. We had a whole bunch of people over for the 4th of July, and I made TWO quadruple batches. It was a hit!
- With other ice cream recipes I’ve made, you have to let it sit out at room temp for 15-30 minutes before it’s scoop-able. I particularly like this recipe because I had no problem scooping it straight from the freezer- even after it had frozen solid.
Simple No-Cook Vanilla Ice Cream
- Yield: 1 quart 1x
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 – 3/4 cups of sugar
- 2 Tablespoons vanilla extract
- Pinch of sea salt (I use this one)
- 1 or 2 vanilla beans
Instructions
- Combine milk, sugar, and vanilla beans in blender
- Thoroughly blend until vanilla beans are chopped into tiny bits
- Add remaining ingredients, blend until combined
- Place in your ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s directions
- Serve immediately for soft-serve style, or place in freezer for firmer results
All in all, I think you’ll really like this recipe. You really can’t go wrong with homemade ice cream- and I especially love it since it’s a old-fashioned treat that brings back fond memories for many folks.
Sounds wonderful! And EASY! Thanks! I think I should pin this one…
Great recipe. Thanks. I’ve also used pure maple syrup with good results.
I use the pure maple syrup and skip the vanilla extract. I have also used stevia and vanilla. Both ways taste wonderful.
I’m going to try this with Honey…because it sounds good… I have goats milk but I don’t like our ice cream made with just goats milk…I think it tastes like iced milk instead of iced cream! Maybe my goats milk is just not fatty enough? And I never thought of grinding up the vanilla bean pods, great idea! Thanks
The goat’s milk ice cream I’ve made has been ok, but not as creamy as the cow milk. There is just something about using that cream… 😉
Oh my. My ice cream maker is ready to go! This recipe sounds delicious. To the grocery tomorrow and we are ON! I am having a “Friendsgiving” luncheon before Thanksgiving and I will make this for dessert if it comes out great when I try it in the next day or so. Thank you so much.
I was wondering why you said “almost” to the health food part, as I consider homemade ice cream with quality ingredients to be a wonderful, healthy treat, until I read the white sugar part. I have used both honey and maple syrup. I love both, honey does add a taste, so it may be acquired. Also, use less honey than you would sugar. My favorite way to prepare my ice cream ingredients is to kefir the cream before, and add a couple of pastured egg yolks. Makes it so creamy, nutritious and delicious!
I like to use Pyure Organic Stevia Blend. It taste like sugar but a lot better for you. I just use half the recommended amount since stevia is tends to be sweeter.
Actually honey and maple syrup are the same as using white sugar. There are no increased health benefits by using either of those over sugar. However I think they both taste better then white sugar.
Use pastured egg yolks and there is no concern of illness. We never cook our mix. But do not use store bought raw yolks. Yolks from eggs laid by pastured chickens add so much nutrition We always use them.
3 cups cream
3 pastured egg yolks
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 1/2 TB organic vanilla
pinch sea salt.
!00 % healthy and so good! Whisk it all and freeze in a Donvier or similar.
I agree- I happily eat my own eggs raw with no problems. However, I’ve found that this recipe stays the same whether I add them or not. So, I don’t always add them. 🙂
Hello do u think this recipe would work and taste as well if I were to substitute the maple for honey and add lavender? I am dying for a healthy delicious honey lavender vanilla ice cream!
Thanks for sharing
Do u know a “primitive” (ha ha) ” small child friendly/very simple way to make this ice cream without the luxury or convenience of any type of frezzing or frozen food making appliance other then a regular fridge/freezer? If this recipe would be alright to use that alternative?
Thanks again I do hope to get a maker sooner than later! 🙂
Look up kick the can ice cream, it takes awhile, but it works. We made strawberry ice cream with our girl scout troop when camping.
I was thinking about adding some mint extract and chocolate chips, how much extract do you think I should add so it is not a punch in the face, thanks
Exactly what I was looking for. We also raise our own pastured chickens our eggs are wonderful. I couldn’t figure out why egg yolks were omitted from the recipe. I can understand that for safety sake there must be a users discretion.
Sounds great!
This sounds just like mine! However, I don’t put the vanilla beans in it – mainly because I”m cheap. But they do make really pretty speckledies don’t they?
And your pictures are so pretty. I need some ice cream now. It’s totally for the baby.
That baby NEEDS some ice cream!! 😉
When you say “whole milk” you are referring to the milk left after you have skimmed off your cream from your raw milk, right? Not raw milk straight from the cow, no cream taken off, correct? Did I word that question in a confusing way??? Sorry!
I realize my reply is a bit late…but here it is: whole milk is just that, whole – do not skim off the cream. That would no longer be whole milk.
A quick question for you…we have lots of raw cow milk we need to use but when we made ice cream out of it recently it turned out more like ice milk. How do you separate your cream from your milk to get the heavy whipping cream called for in so many recipes?
With cow milk, you can just wait a day or so and let the cream rise to the top and then skim it off. I usually have to save up my cream for a couple days in order to get enough to make the ice cream.
It also depends on the breed of cow. We always had Jersey, Guernsey or Brown Swiss, all known for high fat content, unlike the “Milk” cow the Holstein.
Do you know if this recipe would work using all heavy cream instead of the milk? Or maybe even half and half? We are keto and try to avoid milk when we can because of the high sugar content. I don’t have my own cow yet, but that will be a different story when I do! ?
Looks AMAZING Jill! 🙂 I normally make raw ice cream as well. It’s such a time saver. I like to use raw honey instead of sugar. Some people tell me that they can taste the honey in it but I think I’m so used to it that don’t notice anymore. The same goes with coconut oil in recipes. 🙂
I was just wondering if anyone has tried (with any success) doing the same with Sheep’s Milk. We have a child who is allergic to the casein in Cows/Goat’s milk so we invested in sheep and milk the sheep. Just curious if it would possibly work the same or not. Thank you for the recipe, can’t wait to try it…one way or another, I mean it IS summer and we NEED ice cream, right?!?
Hmmm… Never tried sheep’s milk, so can’t say for sure. However, I’m betting that it would be worth a try. Let me know how it turns out! 🙂
We have a milk allergy here, too, so I usually make coconut milk ice cream. Mix together 2 cans (I use organic, classic, no bpa’s) of coconut milk, 1/3-1/2 cup raw honey, 2 tablespoons homemade vanilla extract. Put the mixture in your ice cream maker (I use the KitchenAid attachment) until creamy and delicious. It does have a coconut flavor, but only one of six in this house doesn’t like it 🙂
I have used sheep milk in the past. Talk about a very, very, very (did I mention VERY) rich ice cream. Has just a bit of a different taste, but is good also. I do add 1-2 eggs/quart of cow’s milk. I am on low fodmaps, so cane sugar is my best choice. I do use golden syrup on occasion or make a simple syrup.
1 gallon milk, add cream if like. One neighbor wanted all cream.
1-2 cups sugar
1 dozen eggs-whip in blender
vanilla or whatever snaps your garters for flavor
put in ice cream churn and put everyone to work.
Christmas-crush candy canes
Summer-sliced berries
4th of July-Root Beer floats all around at the picnic
Fall-I use 1/2 to 1 cup pumpkin pie filling
Birthdays-the birthday guest chooses flavor
Hi Ceder, so you make yours with no cream at all just all milk and eggs, I have milking goats and chickens and would like to be able to make ice cream with out having to buy cream from the store.
Sheep milk ice cream is tops! Naturally homogenized it makes the richest ice cream!
I love this : “3. It’s an extra step. I’m always busy. The more steps I can cut out, the better.”!
I’ve never made ice cream, so thanks for the tip on buying pre-loved ice-cream makers. We have recently started to really look at the dairy industry in Australia, and as a result are now trying to source our milk from the most seemingly ethical dairies we can find (ie where the calves aren’t separated from the cows within a day of birth and the bobby calves aren’t slaughtered), but I’d been wondering about ice cream. We’re not big ice cream eaters, but making the occasional batch ourselves could be the solution. And if it’s quick and fairly painless – I’m much more likely to do it! 🙂
You have Pav’s, they hold up better to picnics!
I’m going to try this ~ we love homemade ice cream. I have to confess though that I am partial to one of my recipes that features a cooked custard it *is* though pretty labor intensive and a three day process: cook custard and cool, make the ice cream, allow it to ripen. This would be great for something that is quick and easy.
Yeah, if you have the time, the cooked ones are good, too. But I’m always in a hurry it seems! 🙂
It’s perfectly legitimate to make ice cream without eggs. Its a matter of “New York Style” versus “Philadelphia Style” Ice cream.
I made a honey ice cream last summer, though it has eggs. It’s the recipe from Ashley English’s beekeeping book. My family loved it.
Good to know! 🙂 That honey ice cream sounds heavenly. I think I’m definitely going to have to start experimenting a bit with that!
I use a similar recipe but with maple syrup as the sweetener and it’s delicious…you have to try it! Here’s my recipe: http://www.morethanmundane.com/2012/07/15/its-national-ice-cream-day-and-my-simple-creamy-vanilla-ice-cream-recipe/
I love homemade ice cream and cant waitt to give this recipe a try! Thanks for sharing.
Just made this with raw goat milk and one cup of whipping cream plus added one raw egg(for extra richness) from my free range chickens. It is to die for!
Janet– YUM! Thanks for the report!
Good morning:) if I wanted to make this a coffee ice cream with chocolate covered espresso beans. How much coffee would I use? Thank you:)
Sharon:)
Hi Sharon,
Well, I’ve never made a coffee version, but I would try adding 1/8 to 1/4 cup at a time until you had the desired flavor. The good part about this recipe is that you can taste it before you freeze it to make sure it’s how you want it. (I did a lot of taste-testing with my batches to make sure it had enough vanilla) Hope that helps and good luck!
I don’t yet have my own cow or goat but as I only like whole milk with the cream mixed in, I would have a hard time skimming off the cream to create enough cream! It is also hard for the body to digest even raw milk if it is skimmed.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
🙂
Use whole raw milk. You get to make your ice cream in your kitchen you way!
Adding some form of alcohol is supposed to help the ice cream keep from freezing to hard. Perhaps that is why you’ve had success with scooping this frozen; 2 Tbsp vanilla is more than most recipes I’ve seen.
I have made this recipe for years and we do add a couple of our own pastured eggs. My son in law has a wood fired coffee roasting business and their coffee is roasted over mesquite wood a totally green operation called Summermoon Coffee Roasters. I use some of that to make cold brew coffee and have made coffee ice cream with the cold brewed coffee. Just substitue about 1/4 or so of your milk/cream with coffee. It is soooo yummy ! I am sure you could use leftover coffee from your morning brew that has cooled too.
Haven’t read all the otehr comments, so hopefully this isn’t repetitive. But- we enjoy honey, however it really is strong. It definitely makes it “honey ice cream” not vanilla. I’ve found that maple syrup doesn’t change the flavor noticeably (at least not to us) at all….though that’s really pricey. We use sucanat whenever I’m doing chocolate or something that will mask the flavor….or if we don’t care about having a pure vanilla flavor, such as if we’re mixing it with homemade chocolate chips and peanut butter swirl.
And BTW- I’ve done both cooked and uncooked recipes, and currently do a cooked one since I like to use the eggs for extra protein, but mine aren’t local/pastured. I don’t want to loose the benefits of our raw milk, either, or take the time to cool…..so I just cook the eggs, sugar, and 1/2-1 cup of milk, then add it to my raw cream/remaining milk. It cools off instantly, and most of it’s still raw! 🙂
What is the difference between the egg and no egg version?
If you don’t have an ice cream churn and you aren’t interested in putting this ice cream mix a stoneware dish to pull it out of the freezer every 5 mins for hours on end to churn it, you should be able to get away by cheating if you have a good enough blender/food processor.
All you need to do is:
Freeze the mix until it is solid, remove from the freezer to soften slightly.
Place in blender/processor and blend (slowly at first, but increasing to top speed) for a few minutes until it reaches the consistency of soft-serve. This must be done quickly to avoid the mixture melting too much.
Then place this into a container and return to the freezer.
By doing this, you will incorporate air without needing to churn. It will not turn out quite as well as churned ice cream, but it works well as a substitute. I also use this method for making sorbet 🙂
Good to know Jay! thanks for sharing. 🙂
i am using a very simular recipe only i dont have an ice cream maker. i guess the quality gets better with one but i found that if you put the ice cream into the freezer and stir it every 30-60 minutes you end up with a really nice ice cream too =)
so for anyone who does not have an ice cream maker: dont worry. works without too.
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This is an awesome recipe! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve never made the vanilla recipe, but happy to see that there’s a tried and true recipe that you love. I’ve only made the strawberry version, same thing only no vanilla and I do it in my food processor with frozen berries. I had some last night while watching a movie! I’ve been wondering about making a vanilla version, thanks for the info.
Ooh, strawberry sounds wonderful too!
I just love strawberrie ice-cream and the Fla. Strawberries are just beginning to come into season. Do you mind giving me your rec. for Strawberry IceCream.
I also request the strawberry recipe!
Hi Dear, first time i jumped to your site when searching for healthy home made peanut butter.You have a good blog. I liked it. You an check upon my ice cream recipe also.
One of the main reasons I bought a Blendtec blender was to make good ice cream from raw milk in a safe container. It appears that they are vegan. All their ice cream recipes avoid any cow’s milk. Can you help me with a blender recipe for vanilla ice cream made from raw cow’s milk/cream?
Frustrated raw milk devotee ;o)
Hi Caroline,
Unfortunately, I have never tried blender ice cream. But how frustrating that they only included vegan recipes! Sorry I’m not more help!
Dear Julie
I’ve made this twice now. It’s simple,quick reliable, versatile and delicious. Many thanks for sharing this recipe Julie.
Cheers and warmest regards from country Australia
Karin
Thanks for sharing the recipe. I added 14oz of sweetened condensed milk (because I saw it in some other recipes) and I only used half the vanilla (that’s all I had left) and it tasted great, and great texture. I doubled the recipe and my 4 Qt ice cream maker was full to the top. I’m not sure how you get 4 quarts from doubling a 1 quart recipe… the ice cream definitely expanded as it was mixing since it was only 3/4 full before mixing. I’m glad I didn’t fill it to the top before mixing.
Hi Jill! I kinda feel stupid right now….I don’t exactly know what an ice cream maker is 🙁 (though i can just google it…..How else does one find out anything? 😉 ) And I’m pretty sure we don’t have one. So, is there anything else i could use? I don’t know!!!! :-C
Hi Katie,
An ice cream maker is an appliance (either electric or manual) that slowly turns a container surrounded by ice until the milk mixture turns to ice cream. There are a few other methods you can try if you don’t have an ice cream maker, but I haven’t had great success with those. Might be worth googling though.
Hi Jill, the link for your fav ice cream maker is missing can you send it to me, thanks! justine
Can you add eggs to this also? I would love to leave it the same but just add some eggs for the nutrition. Thanks!
Sure! I would probably just stick with yolks to help thicken it– and make sure they are pasture-raised eggs from healthy chickens since you’ll be eating them raw. 🙂
And also, would you use whole eggs or just the yolks? What is the difference? I have made recipes with whole eggs and then some with just yolks.
How many yolks would you use in this recipe? I only get pastured eggs, they are the best! Thanks for such a quick reply!
Hmmm… maybe 2-4?
Thanks for this recipe. I have used it many times. I have twice used coconut sugar and loved the results. Gives a richer almost maple taste but not maple. It does not give any coconut taste. I have had success freezing it in a bowl and stirring.
Oooh, great idea on the coconut sugar!
I replaced the white sugar with maple syrup (my son has cavities and we’re on the remineralization/paleo diet is one of various reasons why we avoid traditional white sugar) and while it’s sweet (next time I’ll use maybe 1/2 cup) it’s great! I’m going to try making chocolate by adding 1/2 cup of raw cacao powder! Thanks for this!
Oh yum Tara! Sounds like a great ingredient switch-out. 🙂
We have an ice cream maker but usually make our “healthy” ice cream in our Vitamix using “basically”:
1 tray of frozen fresh raw milk (we prefer one particular farm source that is extra creamy)
vanilla
about 1/4 C sweetener (either one or combo of raw cane, powdered stevia, honey, etc depending on flavor we’re going for)
1 C of fresh unfrozen milk or cream
and sometimes…Add’l ingredient of choice ((freshly picked peaches (fav so far), strawberries, blueberries, cocoa)
The Vitamix (which stays out since we use it daily) makes a softer ice cream that we devour immediately, but maybe I’ll pull out the ice cream maker to make tonight’s dessert. As a short person in a tall person kitchen, items stored in high cabinets don’t get used often…and oftentimes get forgotten. Thanks for the reminder.
Oh yum- that recipe sounds delish! A vitamix is on my wish list someday!
We add frozen fruit to our raw cream and milk mix to sweeten it. Tonight was cherry ice cream!
Raw honey works great in ice cream!
Yes indeed- yum!
What do you think about using Agave Nectar instead of sugar?
I’ve heard varying opinions on Agave– a lot of people say it’s not a whole lot better for you than sugar, so I don’t really use it. However, I imagine it’d work ok as a sub. 😉
I have made this twice – once a couple weeks ago when I followed the recipe exactly and tonight when I added three pastured eggs. The first batch was good but tonight’s is even better. I did add the whole egg, not just the yolk. It is much creamier than the last time.
Also, I use unrefined dried organic cane juice.
Yum! Yes, I think the eggs do add a extra special touch. (we just so happened to have a batch of this for supper as well! Except ours was chocolate.) 🙂
I want to make a vanilla bean, no cook recipe like yours for a cooking class we teach. I will be using vanilla beans directly from my co-op and see that you use your spent beans. Can I just blend new beans, or should I soak them first? Thanks for the recipe. Sounds perfect! We’ll be using it with our Cherries Jubilee recipe we are making this week!
Thanks for your help!
Fresh beans should work just fine! 🙂 Enjoy!
I have a great ice cream recipe from my mom that whe used while we were growing up. We always had vanilla (my favorite) and chocolate. As fruit came into season she would make fresh cheery, or peach ice cream. My father and I liked a flavor by a local dairy – Orange Pineapple. We never made that flavor. I would like to try my hand at it as I can no longer buy that flavor. Any idea how to go about mixing this? I have thought adding an orange and maybe pineapple, should I use juice in it also.
If anyone out there has successfully made fruit ice cream please let me know.
Thank you.
Did you already try it? I would sub orange juice for some of the milk (1/2-1c?), and then add crushed pineapple slowly once the ice cream is in the maker to make a “pineapple swirl.” If it’s not “orangey” enough for you, try adding a tablespoon or more of the orange zest. I would use a much smaller amount of vanilla, also, but don’t leave it out! I think vanilla would be a good complement to these flavors.
I have not tried to make any yet. I am afraid of ruining it with out a starting point. I will try your suggestions out. Right now we are using all the milk we get. Setting my cream aside for that chance to make ice cream. Thanks for the suggestions.
We LOVE homemade ice cream. We took our Young Women on a “Pioneer” campout last fall. I brought my ice cream maker because while it is electric, it also switches and becomes hand-cranked. We went to a local dairy and showed the girls where milk REALLY comes from and bought a gallon of raw milk. At the campsite they added sugar and vanilla, then cranked it themselves. We had dehydrated fruits and to me it was better than Ben & Jerry’s or Baskin Robbins! The girls were in heaven! After we came home, my 15 yo DD made ice cream everyday for a week! She would hand churn it while she watched the news at lunch time. Thank you for sharing!
How FUN is that?! 🙂
Have you tried adding a couple of eggs to this recipe? I love the texture and richness eggs add. Just wondering. Thanks!
Yes– I have tried eggs in it, and it’s really good either way!
I use the same basic recipe but have never used a vanilla bean, only extract. I also go a little overboard with adding other flavors. I was throwing in leftover pie (any kind ) or crumbled cookies. Of course berries too but the berry ice cream (even cranBERRY ) went a new level with cream cheese added to it! I’m going to start trying to do a chocolate peanut butter with banana ice cream next. Makes me feel like a mad scientist lol
I forgot Rhubarb that’s my favorite but i only get it once a year 🙁
Don’t have raw milk, can I use regular whole milk?
Wonderful! If only I had a freezing or ice cream maker searching possible ways to make without? Could Brown sugar be used instead? My uncle used to always give my cousin and I homemade vanilla ice cream with brown sugar sprinked on top when we where kids it was our Friday night treat! It was the best! He always added a bit of honey around the outter edges of his ice cream back then WHITE sugar was all us children knew it was hard enough to begin with when the brown sugar popped up 🙂 but honey?? Only on biscuits. I did try his it was great but super sweeeet. Dose the good bacteria in the raw dairy still exist in recipes such as this? I’m new to raw and a lot of organic healthy foods.
Another great recipe
Yep– you can use brown sugar if you like!
And yes– the good bacteria will still be there since it’s not cooked.
Just made this but my blender decided to die so had to stir it. It was good but left a greasy feeling on our lips. Why is that
You should stop telling people that cooking raw milk makes it less nutritious or flavorful. That is nothing but a myth. In fact, raw milk contains bacteria that cooking can easily destroy, which makes the milk more safe to consume. All of you anti-Pasteurization people need to stop with the pseudo-science unless you can do the hard scientific work to prove your nonsense as real scientists have been doing for decades. Science doesn’t exist because of any conspiracy; it exists because problems needed solving.
Mark as you may well know, pasteurization began during the industrial revolution when the farmers took their cows from the pastures and brought them to town and put them on concrete where they couldn’t keep them clean and some of the bacteria from the poop got into the milk. And instead of the government making them clean up their act they started pasteurizing the milk and it has been with us ever since disregarding the 100’s of years that people drank clean unpasteurized milk with no problems.
Except you’re disregarding the vast number of people who got sick drinking contaminated milk before Pasteur developed his process, which was the whole reason he developed it.
I don’t own an ice cream maker. Any way I can freeze this without one?
I do mine in freezer boxes or silicone bread pans and put in freezer.
My favorite ice cream “recipe” is this.
In blender:
Some cream
Some honey
Some liquid stevia
Some vanilla extract
Blend up and pour in a freezer box in freezer.
Wait a couple hours then eat.
How do I add fresh peaches to the simple vanilla ice cream recipes? Should they be just chopped up or puréed?
Just thought I’d mention that the correct way to use a vanilla bean is to split it lengthwise and then scrape out the insides (tiny black seeds) to use. It’s those seeds that make the specks in ice cream. One doesn’t need to chop up the whole thing in a blender and it`s a bit more practical if you don’t have a blender. 🙂
How would i add salted caramel to this recipe?
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Just made this and it came out awesome! I scraped the vanilla bean because I read that’s the proper way to use. However, upon reading your comment, I could’ve used the whole bean! I wasted part of a valuable ingredient! Next time I’ll use it all. Thank you so much for delicious, easy ice cream!
Just made this with the littles I nanny for! It was delicious and so much fun! We did it without the vanilla bean, as we didn’t have any and we forgot the pinch of salt, but it was still awesome and sooooo EASY! Perfect recipe for even the littlest hands to help with! Thank you!
I just made this in my new Cuisinart ICE 30, my first ever home made ice cream, and it was to die for! I halved the recipe, used vanilla extract because I didn’t have a vanilla bean and I added a chopped Hershey bar. So easy and unbelievably delicious! Love it! Hubby did too! I will use this recipe again and again. .
I’ve never been a huge homemade ice cream fan. In the past it was always so watery and not very creamy. Decided to give it one more try and made this for Father’s Day yesterday. Wow! Seriously the best ice cream ever. It was so creamy and had so much flavor. My only complaint is I wish we had more!!
I made ice cream a couple of nights ago. I used your basic recipe using 2 cups of heavy cream, 2 cups of half and half, 3/4 cup sugar and instead of vanilla I used 1 1/2 tsp. of coconut extract. I let the machine run for at least 20 minutes until it was starting to thicken. Meanwhile I took approx. a cup of sweetened, shredded coconut and ran it in a food processor briefly to chop it up more finely. I then added it to the machine while still running and let it go for 5 – 10 more minutes. It is better than any commercial coconut ice cream I have ever tasted. It scoops easily even out of my zero degree freezer. Put a little hot fudge sauce over it and it is almost like having a frozen Mounds bar. Delicious! When I was a kid I preferred the cooked ice cream recipes but now that I am older and doing the work myself instead of my Mother I like the no-cook recipes. LOL I have the same ice cream maker you recommend and it does a wonderful job. I got mine unused with tags at GoodWill for $12. Just be sure to leave the freezer bowl in the coldest part of your freezer for a full 24 hours. I tried it once after only 8 hours and the ice cream did not turn out right. Thank you for sharing this recipe and your thoughts on making homemade ice cream.
I usually painstakingly make the kind of ice cream with eggs, and one day I had no eggs so I came across this recipe. My husband was like “wow this is the best ice cream you’ve made”