Homemade Lemon Custard Ice Cream Recipe

You'll love these homemade lemon custard ice cream recipes from Grandma's recipe box. One of the first ice cream flavors to be invented was all-natural lemon, and it has remained popular for many generations.

The fresh zesty taste of lemon in these creamy old fashioned ice creams cannot be duplicated by any store-bought brand. You must taste the refreshing difference yourself to truly appreciate it.

Homemade Lemon Custard Ice Cream Recipe

Milch Cows and Dairy Farming (1858)

Lemon Custard Ice Cream

To one quart of cream use the yolks of three eggs. Put the cream over the heat till it boils, during which time the eggs are beaten up with half a pound of white sugar, powdered fine; and when the cream boils, stir it upon the eggs and sugar, then let it stand till quite cold, then add the juice of three or four lemons. It is then ready to put into the freezer.

The heat of the cream partially cooks the eggs, and the stirring must be continued to prevent their cooking too much.

A somewhat simpler lemon recipe, given by the confectioners, is the following eggless version:

Eggless Lemon Ice Cream

To half a pound of powdered sugar, add the juice of three lemons. Mix the sugar and lemon together, and then add one quart of cream.

This is less rich and delicate than the preceding custard ice cream, but it is quite rich enough for common use and some trouble, and time is saved.

Homemade Lemon Custard Ice Cream Recipe

Aunt Babette's Cook Book (1889)

Lemon Custard Ice Cream

Grate the peel of two lemons into a pound of pulverized sugar; put the sugar into a quart of cream and boil; beat the yolks of eight eggs light, and add gradually to the boiling cream, and let it boil up once more.

Remove from the fire and stir until cold, then stir the juice of three lemons into the cream; do this rapidly and turn into the freezer at once and freeze, for the acid is apt to turn the cream sour.

Note: An orange ice cream is made in the same way by omitting the lemons in favor of oranges.

Homemade Lemon Ice Cream Recipe Without Eggs

Practical Housewifery (1874)

Easy Lemon or Orange Ice Cream

1 quart of cream. 2 lemons — the juice of one and the grated peel of one and a half. 2 cups of sugar.

Sweeten the cream, beat the lemon gradually into it, and put at once into the freezer. Freeze rapidly in a patent freezer, or the acid is apt to turn the milk.

You may make an old fashioned orange ice cream in the same way.

Homemade Lemon Ice Cream Recipe Without Eggs

Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper (1873)

Zesty Lemon Ice Cream

One quart of milk. One and a half tablespoonfuls of arrowroot. The grated peel of two lemons. One quart of thick cream.

Wet the arrowroot with a little cold milk, and add it to the quart of milk when boiling hot; sweeten it very sweet with white sugar, put in the grated lemon peel, boil the whole, and strain it into the quart of cream. When partly frozen, add the juice of the two lemons.

Twice this quantity is enough for thirty-five persons. Find the quantity of sugar that suits you by measure, and then you can use this every time, without tasting.