Hamilton Family Recipes: Ice Cream

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Pumpkin Pie Shakes

Recipe Author:
MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON
Ojai, California

Tastes like pumpkin pie in a glass! This cold and creamy blended drink is super easy to make! If you like the flavor of pumpkin, this one is for you!

Ingredients
• 2 cups vanilla ice cream, softened
• 1 cup fat-free milk (or soy, almond or rice milk)
• 2/3 cup canned pumpkin
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice (or a dash of cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg)
• 3 tablespoons Cool Whip, thawed
• Pumpkin-pie spice or Cinnamon (optional)

Preparation
Combine first 5 ingredients in a blender; process until smooth. Pour 3/4 cup ice cream mixture into each of 4 glasses. Top each with about 2 teaspoons whipped topping; sprinkle with the additional spice, if desired.

Oreo Freakout Ice Cream Dessert

Recipe Author:
MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON
Ojai, California

Bring Oreo Freakout to a picnic then sit back and watch people fight over who licks the pan! Try this "Black and White Delight" at your next gathering – it will be a hit with kids and adults alike! You can throw this together in less than 10 minutes and it requires no baking.

Ingredients:
1 package Oreos
1 stick butter, melted
1 carton of vanilla ice cream (mint ice cream is also good!)
1 carton cool whip
chocolate sauce

Directions:
• Crush Oreos and mix with melted butter
• Press on bottom of a 9 x 13 pan
• Put ice cream over crust
• Top with Cool Whip
• Sprinkle with Oreo crumbs
• Drizzle with chocolate sauce
• Freeze
• Cut in squares to serve

Cousins Sky and Heather dressed up for "Black and White Delight":

In January of 2010 (after yet a another successful move with the entire lot of my worldly possessions) I discovered a time capsule of sorts: a tattered box full of scrumptious recipes handwritten on scrap pieces of paper and yellowed notecards that once belonged to my mother, MARY RUTH SMITH HAMILTON (who passed away in 1986 at the young age of 54).

No longer buried in obscurity, these treasures were part of my mom's "family jewels" -- closely guarded assets and secrets -- that she had intended to 'one day' gather together into a cookbook and share with family and friends. Her wish was to collect these Heirloom Recipes and "pass them down and around" (from one generation to the next and amongst her friends and community.)

As I sifted through each recipe, memories of the authors and their edible creations -- like cookies fresh from the oven -- warmed my heart and wafted through my thoughts. Yes, indelibly imbedded into each recipe was a YouTube video from my childhood, a family reunion, a church potluck, a meal with a friend ... One by one, I dusted off each recipe and began a culinary journey back in time -- starting with my mom's EASY PEACH COBBLER. Delicious!

About the same time as my grand culinary find, my niece HEATHER HAMILTON was soon-to-be married. Since so many relatives on her Hamilton side of the family had passed on (including my mom who passed when Heather was only 2 years old), I was inspired to finally compile these recipes into a cookbook as a gift to Heather and for all the family and friends of the Hamilton, Smith, and Greninger clans. Read More