History Strawberry Ice Cream

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Union and Recorder, May 23, 1876 -- page 4

Strawberry Ice Cream

Take a pint of strawberries, one pint of cream, nearly one half a pound of powdered white sugar, the juice of a lemon; mash the fruit through a seive, and take out the seeds: mix with the other articles and freeze: add a little new milk added makes the whole freeze more quickly. Raspberry ice cream made the same way.
 
This sounds extremely good. Have you ever done it at a reenactment or have you always done it at a house with a freezer? I'm just curious as to whether in a cooler full of ice, it would freeze properly?
 
Here is a similar recipe for Strawbeery Ice Cream from "The Blue Grass Cook Book" by Minnie Fox, first published in 1904. As I have written about this cookbook before, the recipes are from old families of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.

Strawberry Ice Cream

1 quart strawberries
1 quart cream
1 pint sugar

Cap the berries and sprinkle over them 1 cup of sugar and let stand 1 hour.

Mash and strain through cloth till pulp remaining is about the size of an egg. Make a syrup of the sugar, and when cool add the cream. Put in freezer, and when half frozen add the fruit and freeze hard.
 
Another old strawberry ice cream recipe is from Godey's Civil War Receipts.
Strawberry Ice Cream (1862)
Pass a pint of picked strawberries through a sieve with wooden spoon, add four ounces of powdered sugar and a pint of cream, and freeze.
 
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