PaleBlue

I am in search of a recipe for an ice cream maker to make ice cream like my grandmother used to make. I know it contains sweetened condensed milk and I THINK it contains evaporated milk (canned) too, and I am sure it only has afew ingredients...I think it's a Southern thing.

Also, I should add, I can make really tasty vanilla ice cream but I cannot find a recipe to duplicate my grandmother's. If I use cream or shipping cream or even 2% milk, it makes the ice cream really whipped and creamy, like, well whip cream. This is NOT how my grandmother's ice cream was. Her was really sweet, but also pretty light and NOT at ALL creamy, coolwhippy, or whipped creamy. It was more of an ice milk almost...no cream taste at all.

If you know what a Golden Corral is, if you've ever eaten the vanilla soft serve of the buffet-- some people may not like it- but it's much more similar to what I am looking for. And I know part of the taste is sweetened condensed milk.

Can anyone please help??? I loathe cool whip, cream, and creamy ice cream and do want something lighter/lower fat. It's gonna have loads of carbs I'm sure. NO eggs, I'm sure.

This is what I've tried that came out WAY too creamy and just wrong (but others loved it):
1. I Took 1 can sweetened condensed milk and stirred it up with a pint of light whipping cream, then poured in 2% milk until the canister was at its fill line. I added a little sugar and vanilla. (Because it will taste sweeter in the mix but not as sweet as ice cream). People said this was delicious, but it was SO creamy it tasted like cool whip was in there. Not what grandma used to make.
2. Tried 2 cans sweetend condensed milk, and filled the canister with canned evaporated milk and sugar and this was just nasty. Way too sweet and yet somehow still came out too whip creamy.

Help please!!! I guess you'd say I want more a snow cream or ice milk or frozen yogurt taste (but again I know there was no eggs or yogurt or pudding or anything like that in the mix and all I can remember is sweetened condensed milk). Help?????? Please??? I think this is a Southern thing, too.