Sweetness At Home During the 2020 Covid Pandemic

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Title (Dublin Core)

Sweetness At Home During the 2020 Covid Pandemic

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I had just quit my job on February 28, 2020 since my military spouse and I were about to PCS (Permanent Change of Station) from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to New Orleans, Louisiana in late March. Mid-March the DOD issued a Stop Movement order for all troops so we ended up not moving until it was lifted on July 1. During the wait, we were in limbo not knowing what would happen with our moving situation, but fortunately we still had our house and stuff. My spouse picked up Covid on our house-hunting trip to New Orleans the first week of March before the Stop Movement was issued, but was never diagnosed since there were not enough tests to go around in North Carolina. For about two months we stayed home together, enjoyed each other's company, and made the best of it. I spent a lot more time in the kitchen than was previously normal, and loved every minute of it. Two years previously, my spouse gave me an ice cream maker for Christmas, but I never took it out of the box and it ended up in one of my difficult-to-reach upper cabinets. When I was organizing my pantry and kitchen cabinets one day to prepare for the time we would actually get to pack up and move, I spied it and thought I would finally give it a try. I have wonderful childhood memories of sitting around with my family and grandparents outdoors while the homemade ice cream my mom and grandmother made, churned in the electric ice cream maker on a hot summers day. I called my mom for her recipe and found a similar one online to reference (published by the Taste of Home test kitchen). The military commissary was out of a lot of groceries, so I made an online order at Sams since they had still had milk and heavy cream, and picked it up. I already had plenty of sugar and vanilla in my pantry. Before Covid, I rarely had time (because of work and school) to make desserts, so this dish was a real treat, a simple recipe, and was super fun to make. The taste of homemade ice cream was so lovely and smooth, with texture velvety, eating it right from the churn. It brought back all the wonderful memories eating homemade ice cream with my family as a childhood, to comfort me during a time I could not travel to see them. Food memories like this can transport one to a time when the world was full of closeness with one's family, when forced to separate due to a world-wide pandemic.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 14, 2020

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Sarah Gebert

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST515

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream/

http://web.archive.org/web/20210723162414/https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Taste of Home

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink

English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

ASU

HST515

stuck

#FoodisLife

sweet

military

North Carolina

commissary

grocery

family

ice cream

homemade

comfort

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Covid Food History

#FoodisLife

HST515

Arizona State University

Covid Comfort Food

Food Adventures while Staying at Home

ice Cream Makes Everything Better

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 515 ASU assignment prompt

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/08/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/09/2021

Item sets

Covid 19

Arizona State University

This item was submitted on August 8, 2021 by Sarah Gebert using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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