Honoring Strawberry Ice Cream

While browsing through my Turkey Hill Ice Cream 2010 calendar, I learned that January 15 is National Strawberry Ice Cream Day. That brought to mind my junior high school days in California, when I would purchase at the campus snack bar a Dixie cup of what passed for strawberry ice cream--vanilla ice cream topped with a dollop of strawberry preserves that was to be stirred with the wooden spoon supplied. I've been meaning to duplicate this concoction to see if it comes close in taste to what I had in junior high.