Tuesday 17 May 2011

Home-made vanilla and honey ice-cream



I was fascinated with a cookery show where they made ice-cream. Seemed easy enough so I thought I'd give it a go. I liked this... :)

Ingredients:
300 ml thick double cream
2 eggs, separated
50 gms sugar (approx)
2-3 tbsp honey
1 vanilla pod

Method:
1. Beat the egg whites till they are stiff.
2. Add in the sugar bit by bit and keep beating till all the sugar is incorporated into the mixture
3. Pour the double cream into a saucepan and put over a medium heat.
4. Slit the vanilla pod in half and scrap the seeds from inside. Add this to the cream
5. Bring the cream to boil while stirring continuously. Add the egg yolks to this mixture and mix well. Remove from heat.
6. Add the honey to the cream and mix well.
7. Pour the cream into a freezer proof dish and gently fold in the stiffened egg white mix
8. When well mixed, place the dish in the freezer.
9. After an hour or 2, remove from freezer and mix the ice-cream mixture thoroughly. Only the sides would have begun to set by this time. I think this stops the formation of ice crystals and makes the ice-cream creamer.
10. Repeat the churning process after an hour.
I churned it 3 times in total and then left it to set fully for 2 hours. The end result was creamy soft ice-cream. Mission success :) Had mine with warm apple crumble

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