State champ ice cream freeze off recipes

Annie Mae Abron beams over her second place trophy at the Texas State Championship Homemade Ice Cream Freeze Off. Well disciplined in diversity skills, TXU Thermo Mine Track Operator Jackie Hooker's use of his wife's recipe demonstrated an utter lack of gender bias as he took first place in the Big Dip Division of the competition.

SULPHUR SPRINGS - Annie Mae Abron's vintage recipe calling for flour in a freezer of home-made vanilla ice cream finished second to Keith Shurtleff's winner in the Hopkins County Chamber's Texas State Championship Homemade Ice Cream Freeze Off.

"If there's a chance to cook or create, Annie Mae's going to be there," said Chamber Pres Bill Elliott, the event organizer.

"I've had my three score and more," she said. "These days, I do what I want."

A summer staple of her Seasoned Saints Sunday School class at Morning Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Mrs. Abron's ice cream requires cooking before freezing.

Like this:

Combine, 1 ½ cups sugar, 1/4 cup flour, 4 beaten eggs, 4 cups whipping cream, 1 teaspoon salt and vanilla to taste. Cook over medium heat, cool, chill and break out the ice cream freezer. Of local interest, the rugged personnel of TXU's Thermo mine in Hopkins County showed a renaissance side, entering three teams.

Using his bride's recipe, Track Operator Jackie Hooker took first in the competition's Big Dip Plain division.

Lignite mined at Thermo is shipped by rail to TXU's Monticello Steam Electric Station.

"The cool stuff our guys do, like making ice cream, is nothing less than the reflection of good people in a community," said TXU Community Relations Manager Gordon Hall.

Keith Shurtleff's 2004 Texas State Champion Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients: 8 eggs, 1 qt. half and half, 1 pt. whipping cream, 1 1/4 cup sugar, 3 cans sweetened condensed milk, whole milk, 5 tsp. vanilla.

Beat eggs until frothy. Combine eggs, sugar, condensed milk and half and half in a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Refrigerate mixture until cool. Add with the mixture whipping cream vanilla and whole milk to proper level in freezer can.

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