Ice Cream
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- 1 quart sweet cream
- 6 egg whites
- 0.5 teacup sugar
- 1 teacupful sugar
- 1.5 tablespoon vanilla
- ice
- salt
Instructions
- Beat the whites of six eggs to a light froth.
- Beat in half a teacup of sugar to the eggs.
- Beat the cream until light.
- Add one teacupful of sugar to the cream and beat again until light.
- Combine the egg mixture with the cream mixture.
- Flavor with one and a half tablespoonfuls of vanilla.
- Put the whole mixture into a freezer.
- Place a layer of ice at the bottom of the freezer pail and cover it with salt.
- Set the freezer in on top of the ice and salt base.
- Fill in around the freezer with alternating layers of ice and salt until full to the top of the freezer, being careful to let no salt get inside the freezer.
- Freeze for ten minutes.