World War 2 Navy Ice Cream Recipe

[Dive Bar Casanova]

I ordered the cook book "Tasting History" that contains old recipes.
One of the kids made this recipe from his YouTube channel and stuck strictly to the recipe. Pretty good.
Surprising powered milk was no longer available at the store so we had to order it online and the powered eggs too.


I posted World War 2 instead of WW II so zoomies wouldn't think World War Eleven.

 

[indaswamp]

Funny...I watched that video 3-4 days ago!

 

[JLeonard]

Just goes to show the ingenuity of the past generations. I worry about todays kids....

Jim

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

Funny...I watched that video 3-4 days ago!

Me too. I ordered the book from Amazon.

Funny...I watched that video 3-4 days ago!

I ordered the book and it came same day. Amazon warehouse is close by. Youngest busted it open and went to work.

I took our youngest to an old diner when he was 7.
The food was old school, never changed in 75 years.
A friend, the head of food and beverage for Club Med was with us.

They immediately were blown away at the amazing flavor and appearance of simple eggs, bacon, toast from fresh baked old recipe bread, hash browns from fresh peeled and boiled potatoes, and other items. In house jam from fresh fruit, this joint even made it's own butter and mustard and ice cream. The pancakes, oh brother, off the chain amazing.

Really impressed our 7 year old who's been a food quality aficionado since.

That diner? Sadly since bulldozed and a casino sits in it's place with a deli that has no clue what so ever how to smoke brisket.

 

[jcam222]

Very cool. I bet that's delicious.

 

[Steve H]

Interesting. Looks really good.

 

[Smokin Okie]

Was gonna comment about US subs in WW II had an ice cream machine but then I saw the comments to the video and the very first one addresses that.

A few years ago I took a deep dive ( no pun intended ) into WW II sub warfare, read several books, and the ice cream machine was very important on the subs.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

We had Gas powered ice cream machines in the marines. I was a earth mover and Crane mechanic and we maintained small equipment too.
Their was a dry mix where we just added water and their was a frozen mix we could usually get when we wern't deployed. Both had Federal Stock numbers / FSN's.
we kept the machines and maintained them but the mess hall ran them.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

I've been making this and it really is good. Just doing it to do it.
A ripe banana is amazing. Sweetest most flavor bananas come from Hawaii and Nicaragua. Source is usually on the box or label.

In one batch I substituted the banana for mini chocolate chips and found 1/3 cup brown sugar (less 1/3 cup white sugar) and a extra 1/2 tsp of vanilla made it right.

 

[BBQ_Boris]

I’m surprised my Dad never mentioned this. He was a cook/ corpsman at Bunker Hill,IN and then Clinton ,OK Navy air bases during WW2. He didn’t cook or talk about what they cooked much by the time I came along.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

Navy /Marine Corps bakers used to make a Lemon Meringue pie fresh from scratch. Shortbread crust,, of the chain amazing.
I was watching an episode of Diners Dives and Drive Ins a while back of a slop chute run my former military cooks & bakers. All the old recipes. Looked amazing, very popular.