Ice Cream Social

When we were not occupied with things at home, we had community social events. If we needed to raise money for church or school, we had what we called an ice-cream supper.

Each family donated milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and hand-turned freezers. Some of the men and my pappa, because he always had a car or truck, would drive to town 15 miles away to the ice house and buy several hundred pounds of ice. We advertised so a large crown always showed up.

We would freeze about 5 gallons of ice cream at a time. The ladies dipped cones and sold as long as anyone could hold another bite. Five or ten cents a cone raised the necessary funds and gave us a party time also.

We made a sold lemonade by the tub full, and sometimes the ladies donated cakes to go along with the ice cream and lemonade. This was a lot of sweet things, but it never seemed to hurt anyone.