It is best to make your ice cream in the winter time when you have plenty of snow to pack around the container. You must also make sure that someone has gone to town and bought some more rock salt. Perhaps you have lots left over from making sauerkraut so you had better check first.

        You will need lots of that rich cream that you just ran through the separator, a cup of sugar and a dozen eggs. (Remember, you have to make enough for 12 people.) Put the sugar, milk and eggs into a double boiler and heat until the mixture boils. By the way, did I remind you to start up the wood-burning stove? Of course the stove is already going since it is winter! (If you are in a hurry, just take the pan out in the snow and leave it for a few minutes. Don't leave it there too long unattended or some varmint will come and lap it up.) The mixture will thicken. Then drain a jar of those peaches that you canned this fall and drink the juice. Add the peaches to the cooled mixture. Pour it all into the ice cream maker and clamp the lid on tight. Then you summon the kids, for this will be a long hard haul. At first the 10 kids will fight for a chance to be first, but as time goes on they will realize how hard it is to turn the crank and they won't fight over it anymore.

        After about an hour the turning will get harder and soon your ice cream will be ready to eat with a piece of that apple pie that your mother just made.

(Photo by Leon Janson.)

        Some of the varmints that might eat your ice cream mixture that is left out in the snow to cool!