Cooking with Judy: Ice cream made simple at home is a sweet treat

You adored it as a kid, but you’ve never outgrown it. Here are two words that make everyone’s eyes light up – ice cream!

“In the store-bought category, there’s good, not so good and really bad,” said food writer and consultant Peggy Fallon, author of “The Best Ice Cream Maker Cookbook Ever” (HarperCollins).

Ice cream maker? Do I need yet another unused appliance taking up space on my counter, I wondered.

“Somewhere people are still hand-cranking, but it’s not for me,” said Fallon. “Cranking will just make you cranky. Unless you’re Amish, I’d go with the electricity.”

Then I leafed through the book and I was smitten. Chocolate pumpkin with hazelnuts; peaches ‘n’ cream; double ginger and Utterly Peanut Butter with a whole cup of peanut butter in a quart of ice cream! But with so many go