November 18, 2007: Strawberry Icecream

It's the perfect fourth dimension of twelvemonth for icecream, together with I've been keeping an oculus on berry prices, biding my time. This weekend I constitute merely what I was afterward - punnets of almost overripe strawberries for alone a duet of dollars. It hasn't ever been this way. The sort of strawberry icecream available from the supermarket when I was a tike was plenty to scare me off the concept almost for life. I bet mine wasn't the alone family where it was ever the finally season left inward a tub of Neapolitan, right? And together with thus at that topographic point was the strawberry flavoured Quik... ergh... what were those nutrient scientists thinking?!

My epiphany came shortly afterward buying my icecream maker vii years ago. The manual had a few recipes at the back, including the ubiquitous vanilla, chocolate together with strawberry. I tried the chocolate get-go of course, amongst proficient results, but was shortly looking for something new. The artificial strawberry flavouring that I knew was thus unlike from the lovely gustation of fresh ones that I figured it was worth a gamble. Boy, was it ever! This tasted similar strawberries. And cream. And spring! I've since added some lemon juice to that recipe to actually elevator the fruity flavour. Given the H2O content of the fruit, this icecream isn't the richest merely about - it sets upwards a somewhat icy together with needs a fighting of fourth dimension at room temperature earlier scooping but the vantage is a slightly to a greater extent than refreshing taste. If you're afterward a super thick together with creamy icecream, hold back for a recipe amongst to a greater extent than egg yolks than this one, in all likelihood to a greater extent than cream, together with perchance a cooked custard phase of preparation. For me, this is all I need.

Well, almost. We had some to a greater extent than lattice biscuits inward the pantry.... together with to a greater extent than cooking chocolate. It alone took minutes to melt the chocolate together with spread it on the dorsum of the lattice biscuits, insulating them against sogginess. Voila - strawberry chocolate icecream sandwiches! I had past times this fourth dimension issued a spontaneous invitation for Jo-Lyn, Mike together with Lee to portion some strawberry bliss. We enjoyed these spell sprawled merely about the lounge room, cream dripping from our fingers together with into chipped bowls.


Strawberry icecream

250g fresh strawberries, washed together with hulled
juice of 1 lemon
3 egg yolks
3/4 loving cup castor sugar
300mL bottle cream
250mL milk

Place the strawberries together with lemon juice into a nutrient processor together with blend until smooth. Next blend inward the yolks together with sugar, together with thus finally the cream together with milk. Refrigerate the mixture until it's actually cold, at to the lowest degree an hour. Churn inward an icecream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions together with freeze for almost vi hours.

Before serving, permit the icecream to soften inward the refrigerator for almost xxx minutes, or at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.