Ice Cream Memories

Some of my favorite childhood memories involve ice cream.

Sometimes after Bible School, Grandpa Landis would pick us up in his blue car. He took us to Tastee Freeze for humongous soft ice cream cones. This was back before the day we had to wear seat belts. On our way home, he would brake the car so we would fly into the seat in front of us. We had to be on red alert in order not to smash our cones. Yes, this is a fond memory.

Grandpa Landis also bought us raspberry ice cream at Rough and Tumble. I remember sitting on the splintery picnic tables, eating purple ice cream,  while smelling the antique smell of steam engine tractors putt-putting in the parade.

My dad would take us to the Tastee Freeze in Lititz by the airport on some Sunday afternoons. We would watch the planes take off and land while we ate our chocolate and vanilla soft swirled ice cream cones. My youngest brother loved planes and took some flying lessons before he drove a car, if my memory serves me correctly. 

My dad would take our whole family on summer trips around the U.S. and almost every day, he would stop and get us soft ice cream cones in the afternoon. I remember one time he told me that the cones were made of mare's milk that day. He soon had to pull off to the side of the road because my stomach couldn't handle the thought of ice cream made with mare's milk.

My mother often made homemade ice cream. This was before we had electric machines and we would take turns turning the crank on our old but adequate ice cream contraption. So much fun. So delicious.

Here is one of my favorite homemade ice cream recipes.

Dairy Queen Ice Cream:

2 Qt. scalded milk
4 packs knox gelatin
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 tsp. salt
1 pint cream or more
1 can Carnation milk
3 T. vanilla

Bring milk almost to a boil, then soften gelatin in water(2 T. water for each package gelatin)
Add this to hot milk, also add the sugar and salt
Cool.
Add the cream and vanilla last
Freeze in ice cream machine

For variation: Add frozen crushed strawberries instead of vanilla.

Very creamy and good~~like childhood memories.