Dad's Favorite Recipe
(From the book: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows
Roam — True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm. Coming Soon
— Fall 2004)

Ingredients:
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 cup milk
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream
• pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions:
Using an electric mixer, beat the eggs for several
minutes until thick and lemon colored. Add 1 cup of
milk and blend into the eggs. Mix sugar and cornstarch
in a large saucepan. Add egg/milk mixture to the sugar
and cornstarch. Cook until thick (about 5 minutes)
stirring constantly. Allow the custard mixture to cool
to room temperature.

When the custard is cool, put into a freezer-safe bowl.
Blend in cream and salt. Freeze for 2 hours or until
slushy. Add 2 teaspoons vanilla. Whip for 5 to 10
minutes with an electric mixer. Return to freezer and
finish freezing (several hours or overnight).

Variations:
After you have whipped the ice cream, fold in 1 to 2
cups of fresh or frozen fruit, nuts and/or chocolate
before returning the ice cream to the freezer to finish
freezing.

Here are some ideas for additions to your ice cream:
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Peaches
Cherries (or Maraschino Cherries)
Chocolate chips
Butterscotch chips
Crushed Heath bars
Crushed peppermint candy
Chopped walnuts
Chopped pistachio nuts
Diced bananas
Coconut
Chocolate chip cookie dough (drop into the ice cream by
small spoonfuls and carefully fold in)
Caramel or chocolate or fudge syrup (drop into the ice
cream by small spoonfuls and carefully fold in)