Southern Recipe Restoration Project

The reader who submitted this old-fashioned ice cream recipe recalls it as strictly a summertime treat. But modern ice cream makers make it possible to whip up a batch any time of year. The maple flavor would make a delicious partner for a slice of warm apple pie or poached pears. But Leila Case can't imagine it with anything but a simple wafer cookie. "Anything else, " she says, "would be gilding the lily."

The contributor: Leila Larendon Sisson Barrett Case, a native Atlantan now living in Americus with her husband.

The story: "I grew up in a world of fantasy, completely innocent of worldly problems. That is because I was lovingly surrounded by a coterie of adoring adults ... Those included my aunts Caroline (who we lovingly called Nannine), Louise, and my second cousin Laure, who we all called Doucette ... During long summer days, I had lunch at my house, then had another lunch with Nannine, Louise and Doucette.
"Nannine's Maple Ice Cream would be dished up in dainty pink porcelain ice cream dishes the color of pink peonies."

-- Susan Puckett, for the Journal-Constitution