Making Homemade Goat's milk Sherbert

I finally went ahead and purchased an electric ice cream maker.  I don't know what I was thinking waiting so long.

Cuisinart Electric Ice cream Maker

My first step was to pasteurize my goat's milk, which I do the day before.  I have been doing 3 quarts at a time, that way I can make 3 different batches of ice cream.  Once the milk has been pasteurized I put it in quart glass jars and keep it in the fridge until I'm ready to make the ice cream.

Today I made Triple Melon Sherbet.

The first part of the recipe is to boil 1 cup of water and then dissolve 1 3oz package of jello, any flavor you want your sherbet to be.  You need to whisk it very well to get it to completely dissolve. Then you need to add 1 cup of sugar and whisk again.  Finally add in 1/8 cup lemon juice.  Mix all the ingredients real well and make sure dissolved.  Now this mixture needs to sit in the fridge to cool down.  You also can put it in the freezer to shorten the cooling period.

After about 10 minutes in the freezer it should be ready.

Water, Jello, sugar and lemon juice mixture

Once it is completely cooled, I whisk it up one more time.  Now its time to add the milk.

Jello Mixture and 1 Quart Goat's Milk

I then whisked in the whole quart of goat's milk into the jello mixture.

Jello and Goat's Milk mixture

All I had left to do is to turn on the ice cream maker and pour it in.

Triple Melon sherbet almost done

Once in the ice cream maker it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to be done.

Triple Melon Sherbet

This sherbet came out delicious and it will be gone probably in 2 days.  I'm sure the kids will have some as soon as they get home from school.

The types of ice cream I can make are endless.  I have already made Cherry Sherbet, Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate Ice cream.  I've made all of this ice cream only in the last 2 weeks.  I'm so glad I got the ice cream maker.  Most of our goat's milk is going to ice cream now.