Dairy Free Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe + Fun Facts

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It’s almost summer! My absolute favorite time of the year, and what screams summer louder than ice cream! I thought it would be fun to share some interesting facts about ice cream along side the yummiest homemade strawberry ice cream recipe and fun activities you can do with the kids this summer.

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Fun Ice Cream Themed Activities For Kids

1-Print this cute I-SPY ice cream activity sheet and have them find 10 different ice cream cones on the page.

2- Have an ice cream party just for fun.

3-Ice cream word search printable.

4-Make homemade ice cream with the recipe below and add fun toppings.

5-Have a coloring contest with these ice cream coloring pages.

6-Have an ice cream taste test. This one will require a little planing ahead. Next time you go to the grocery store pick up seven or eight different flavors of ice cream. You can just get the tiny little cups if freezer space is a concern. With eyes blind folded take turns guessing what flavor each spoonful of ice cream is.

7-Visit different ice cream parlors in your city and try new flavors you’ve never tried before.

Interesting Facts About Ice Cream

The origin of ice cream dates back to the 4th century B.C. although we don’t have a specific date of origin or an inventor to credit for its creation.

The month of July is National Ice Cream Month in the United States thanks to Senator Walter Dee Huddleston who introduced the resolution. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law in 1984.

National Ice cream day is celebrated every third Sunday of July.

It takes 12 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.

Whipped cream is the most popular ice cream topping, with hot fudge being a close second.

The most popular flavor of ice cream among the American people is chocolate ice cream. Vanilla ice cream comes in second place and strawberry in third.

The average American eats 5.5 gallons of ice cream every year.

Miki Sudo ate 16.5 gallons of ice cream in six minutes at the Indiana State Fair in 2017 and still holds the world record.

The tallest ice cream cone measured 10 feet 1.26 inches in height.

The largest ice cream sundae measured one mile in length.

Famous People Through History Who Loved Ice Cream

Roman Emperor Nero would send servants to the mountains to bring down snow, he then would flavor it with fruit toppings and juices.

Marco Polo returned to Italy from his travels with a recipe that we now call sherbet.

A merchant in New York City has a receipt that shows President George Washington spent $200 for ice cream the summer of 1790. That’s about $6,284 in today’s money!

President Thomas Jefferson had a favorite 18 step ice cream recipe for vanilla ice cream. Checkout his handwritten recipe card.

Dolley Madison served strawberry ice cream at the White House for President Madison’s second inaugural banquet.

Some religious scholars say King Solomon enjoyed cooling iced drinks during harvest season. Not exactly ice cream as we know it today but as close as they had in biblical times. I wonder if King Solomon ever experienced a brain freeze?

Nancy Johnson invented the first ice cream maker in 1843. It was a simple hand-cranked churner. Her invention made it possible for the average person to make their own ice cream at home.

Interesting Fun Facts About Ice Cream During Hard Times In History

During WWI to keep the morale of the soldiers up, the US Navy turned a refrigerated barge into an ice cream making facility. They could produce ten gallons of ice cream every seven minutes and store up to 2,000 gallons on the barge.

During World War II European countries banned ice cream because they said it was a wasteful use of sugar.

According to the USDA dairy products like milk, butter, and ice cream sales increased by three pounds per person during the 2020 world pandemic. The American people were finding comfort in the sweet treat amidst uncertainty.

Although not as popular today, ice cream trucks were all the rage after WWII when the ice cream industry boomed. Ice cream trucks were much cheaper to operate especially during the Great Depression era when ice cream parlors were too much of a luxury.

Dairy Free Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

Supplies Needed:

• Ice cream maker
• Blender
• Glass Container to store remaining ice cream in the freezer.

Ingredients:

I have four favorite places where I like to order these ingredients from. Vitacost, Thrive Market, Misfits Market, and Azure Standard. If you have trouble finding any of the ingredients at your grocery store check out these online stores.

• One pound of organic strawberries
• 15 dates
• 2 cans of coconut milk
• 3/4 cup of melted coconut oil
• 3 egg yolks
• 2 Tablespoons of vanilla

Recipe Instructions:

1. Start by melting the coconut oil in a sauce pan on the stove on low heat, and removing from the heat as soon as it’s completely melted.
2. If the dates aren’t pitted already go ahead and take the pit out and put them in the blender.
3. Add the two cans of coconut milk, one pound of strawberries, three egg yolks, and 3 tablespoons of vanilla to the blender.
4. After you’ve given the coconut oil a minute or two to cool down and it to the blender as well.
5. Blend all ingredients for at least ten minutes. I know it sounds like a long time to blend but just trust me, you want everything blended very very well. The ice cream will come out so creamy.
6. While the blender is going, pull out the ice cream maker and turn it on.
7. Pour the the ingredients from the blender into the ice cream maker machine as the freezer bowl spins. Leave it going for 20 to 30 minutes until it starts to harden. It usually will start coming out the top when the ice cream is done.