I call them the good ole days. In the 1970s, we didn’t have ice cream stores on every corner. We lived in the country and couldn’t make late night runs to the grocery store or convenience store (there were none) for ice cream. It was exciting to us kids when Mama and Daddy planned to make ice cream. Daddy would pull out the hand-crank ice cream machine, set it on the gravel driveway under the 100-year-old oak tree. (If he had set it on the grass, the salt water from the overflow hole would have killed the grass.) Mama would assemble the ingredients. Depending on the recipe, she might have cooked the custard mix the day before and set it in the icebox to get good and cold for a day or so. The canister and paddle were usually set in the icebox or freezer to get super-cold.
Cold-Packed Sweet Dill Pickles: Canning Without a Pressure Canner or Jar Prep!
Learning to can? Lindsay Lehman Peters shares her family's recipe for easy cold-packed sweet dill pickles.
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