Home-Made “Goat’s Milk” Ice Cream

On the 11th January, when we were in Port Pirie, we bought a Sunbeam Snowy, but with the frantic pace of the last couple of weeks, we haven’t really had time to even think about using it. Ice-Cream makers are extremely affordable, with this particular model only costing $45.00. On Monday night my husband made a batch of ice-cream using the recipe in the instruction book, but it was VERY sweet, so last night he made another batch of home-made ice-cream using our own recipe and fresh goats’ cream, and it is absolutely delicious.

The recipe that we used is:

Goats’ Milk Ice-Cream

Ingredients

400 mls of goats’ cream
4 egg yolks
rounded 1/3 cup of castor sugar
2 mls of vanilla essence

Method

Place eggs, vanilla and sugar into a bowl and mix thoroughly until well combined, then add the cream. Beat again, put into freezer to cool down. Set up the ice-cream maker and pour the mixture through the mixture hole as per instructions in the book. It takes about twenty minutes to make about a litre of ice-cream.  Place the mixture into another container of about a litre capacity (to cut down on ice formation) and freeze.

In our household, we have people who are allergic to cows’ milk, so having ice-cream used to present a real problem. My daughter used to cough and cough, and snore like you wouldn’t believe when she had ice-cream, but with the goats’ ice-cream she has no problems, and it is so delicious. This is just another way for us to use the goats’ milk that we are provided with, and another step toward self- God-sufficiency.