The Last Ice Cream Recipe {Recipe: Grandpa Dolph's Strawberry Ice Cream)

It's strawberry season, so it's the perfect time to share this final ice cream recipe I have from my father-in-law. There are only 3 things I have seen him make: ice cream, sourdough pancakes, and sourdough waffles. I do believe making ice cream was his favorite out of the 3. In particular, he very proud of his chocolate ice cream recipe, found here:
https://motheralwaystoldme.blogspot.com/2017/06/never-tell-chemist-he-or-she-cant-cook.html

It is a very good ice cream!

Grandpa Dolph's Strawberry Ice Cream

As with his other ice cream recipes, this recipe is half of the original. He had an electric ice cream makers that used rock salt and ice and made about 4 quarts of ice cream. 

1 cups whole milk

2 cups (one quart) crushed strawberries

1-1/2 cups sugar (original recipe calls for 2 cups), divided

1 tablespoon flour

1/8 teaspoon salt

3 eggs, well beaten

2 cups heavy cream

In medium size mixing bowl, mix together well beaten egg, 1 cup sugar, flour, and salt; set aside. In a medium size sauce pan, scald milk to almost boiling (best to use a thermometer and heat to about 200ºF). Slowly stir in milk to egg mixture. Cook mixture in a double boiler* over medium heat and stirring constantly until mixture thickens, but do not boil. Remove from heat, strain, and cool in fridge until well chilled, about an hour. While ice cream base is cooling, mix together crushed strawberries with remaining 1/2 cup sugar; set aside in fridge until needed. After ice cream mixture has chilled, whip the heavy cream until stiff, then fold in ice cream mixture until well blended. Freeze ice cream mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions**, adding strawberries when mixture partially frozen. 

Makes about 3 pints of ice cream. 

*I don't have a double boiler, so I use a metal mixing bowl set on top of a medium sauce pan filled with about 2 inches of water. You want to make sure the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl. 

**I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker that makes 2 pints. It worked to process the 3rd pint after the first 2. The ice cream bowl was still cold enough to freeze the ice cream. 

Enjoy!