White Mountain Ice Cream

David has been looking for a hand-crank White Mountain ice cream maker for years.  His search came to a successful end in October, when he found this on Craigslist.

It's as old as it looks.  But D's made some great ice cream, so I've stopped teasing him.

It's a one-quart sized and freezes in about 15 minutes.  He found that the rock salt in the basement (used to melt snow on the driveway) also works in this machine.  He's made a Helen Corbitt's lemon velvet and a cinnamon flavor (trying to match the delicious dessert we had on a date to Alma's Pan-Latin restaurant).

The man who sold us the maker is a tall man in his 50s, with grey-blue eyes.  He lives in Ellwood City, an hour from Pittsburgh in a little round home with his wife and two daughters.  He showed us his barn and his plans to convert the upper portion into a rental-loft and the lower portion into a venue for private musical concerts.  He discussed theater with David, and told us about his family and his connectedness to that particular plot of Pennsylvania countryside.  We left him refreshed and happy.  There are kind people tucked away in all parts of this world.