Notes: This recipe was made in a Rival 4 Quart Ice Cream Maker that we picked up at Rural King for around $20.00.  Your machine doesn't have to be expensive to make good ice cream!

*Beyond the necessity of the sweetened-condensed milk, you can vary the fresh cream and milk that you use.  From very creamy to ice-milk, most variations are successful. You can make the whole batch with heavy whipping cream- which really makes exceptional ice cream.  Or, you can be slightly more healthy and use 2 quarts of cream and 1 quart of whole milk. We have also made this with 1 qt whipping cream, 1 qt half-and-half, and 1 qt whole milk.  Its still good and maybe a bit healthier? The less cream you use, the more ice-milkish the ice cream.

Since Junket Ice Cream Mix can be hard to find, I have often used Jello Instant Pudding to help accomplish the same end.  Its delicious to mix the strawberries with the Lemon Pudding.  I recommend it!

Materials:

One Ice Cream Machine

2 large bags of ice

Ice Cream or rock salt

Ingredients:

2 lbs fresh strawberries, rinsed and hulled. Can also be frozen from previous years.

2 cans eagle brand sweetened condensed milk

2 quarts heavy whipping cream*

3 cups of sugar- or to taste

Either: 2 (3 oz) boxes of strawberry, vanilla or lemon instant pudding mix

OR 1 (4 oz) box of either vanilla or strawberry ice-cream mix

1 quart whole milk (approximately)*

Rinse and clean the strawberries. In a very large bowl, blend them into a pulpy mixture.  I did this in my mixer, but you can do it in your blender or food processor, as well.  Add 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk, 2 quarts of the whipping cream, and pudding or junket packets.  Mix thoroughly.  Add sugar. This is a mostly "to taste" process... I add the sugar in the mixer so that the sugar can completely dissolve in the milk. But know, that a little more cream or milk will be added to the mixture later- so accommodate for that when sweetening!

Insert the paddle into the Ice Cream machine's metal core.  Pour the mixture into the ice cream maker.  Add the final quart of cream or milk to fill it up, It might not allow for a whole quart- so just fill it up as needed. But do not pass the fill line.

Here, you can begin to follow your machine's instructions, but for ours:

Put the metal core into the ice cream machine.  Tightly secure the lid and add the top mechanism.  Plug it in! As the machine turns the ice cream, Layer Ice and salt into the plastic bucket, around the metal core. Let the machine do the work of freezing.  Typically, we continued to add ice and salt to keep it cold.  When the machine stops, the ice cream is ready. 

Remove the machine top.  Carefully pull out the core.  Rinse the core thoroughly (you don't want the salt to contaminate the ice-cream).  Pull off the lid and Enjoy!!!!