Swain County 4-H celebrated June Dairy Month by hosting a Dairy-licious Recipe Contest. Youth were invited to share their favorite dairy recipe in any of the five categories: snack, breakfast, dessert, drink, or dinner item along with a photograph of the finished recipe and a description of why they chose their recipe.
The Junior and Senior First Place Winners along with their recipes follow:Junior First Place Winner - Dessert Category
Lemon Filled With Ice Cream
Elsie-Mae Clayton (age 8)
Ingredients
- Peel and juice of one lemon
- 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 1/2 cup superfine sugar
Directions
- Boil lemon peel, juice, milk, and cream until boiling point.
- Remove pan from stove and cool about an hour.
- Then strain and put back in pan on stove.
- Best egg yolks with the sugar until it looks lemony.
- Stir with the warm milk and cook in microwave until slightly thick, stirring frequently.
- Cool and put in freezer until slushy.
- Beat again until smooth and freeze till firm.
- Cut small slice off bottom of lemons so it will stand up.
- Slice a lid off the top and scoop out (can use flesh in your lemon mixture).
- Spoon or pipe ice cream into lemon shell and chill.
Reason for choosing this recipe: "I liked the picture in Ninny's book"
Senior First Place Winner - Dessert Category
Cookie Ice Cream Pie
Darien Vaughn (age 16)
Ingredients
- 10 Oreo cookies, crushed
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 14 whole Oreo cookies
- Filling:
- 1/2 gallon dark cherry chocolate chunk ice cream, softened, divided
- 1/2 cup prepared fudge topping, divided
- Canned cherry pie filling or maraschino cherries, optional
Directions
- In a small bowl, combine crushed cookies and butter; press onto bottom of a 9-in. pie plate. Stand whole cookies up around edges, pressing lightly into crust. Freeze until set, about 1 hour.
- For filling, spread half of ice cream over crushed cookies. Drizzle with 1/4 cup of fudge topping. Freeze until set, about 1 hour. Spread remaining ice cream on top. Drizzle with remaining fudge topping. Freeze several hours or overnight.
- Garnish with cherries if desired. Let pie stand at room temperature for 15 minutes before cutting.
For more information about the many other 4-H activities, clubs, events, and projects, please contact Kyla-Jo Farmer, Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development (kyla-jo_farmer@ncsu.edu) at the N.C. Cooperative Extension, Swain County Center at (828) 488-3848.
