Homemade Ice cream/July is National Ice cream month

Did you know that? I thought that is sort of  neat fact, that is absolutely
meaningless!  But we made homemade ice cream this afternoon and there is a long story behind it!<p>

 I always wanted an ice cream maker. I mean, when I was a teenager , I wanted one of those wooden
gallon ones, I used to pore over the Lehmans catalog and dream of owning
one. I do not like ice cream very much is what is funny,  but I wanted one!
One day at a garage sale I got a ice cream maker that the  motor was
missing. I dreamed of how I could make it work with a  hand crank handle. (I
know I am weird). I never could afford it or make myself spend the money for
something I was not sure if it would work. <p>Fast forward a few years and here
I am at an auction and there is a wonderful electric ice cream maker in the
box for sale at this estate auction. I think I  paid $2.50 for it.  I was so
excited! The only problem was now, I sold my cow, and did not have a way to
make ice very easy so it was too expensive to make it.  So, there it sat for
over 5 years.  I finally had one and today, in July, National Ice cream
month, I got to try it!  Someone gave me 2 bags of ice so I was so excited
for the opportunity as one would not  fit in my freezer!  I used evaporated
milk, eggs, sugar and milk to make it and pickling salt for the ice and it
worked great!!! <p> It is a Dolly Madison, which I guess she made one of the
first ice cream makers.   It works good and now I  want to use it more, but
like all dreams, this one may sit on the shelf for awhile again, before  I
dust it off!