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[Jules.]

My egg skelter is nearly full, despite selling two 4-egg boxes of eggs this week, & also bartering a box for some baking apples.

So today I'm going to make some lemon curd using my mum's old recipe which doesn't call for egg yolks as Kate's one does, & some vanilla ice cream

 

The recipe I have from the book Hens in the Garden Eggs in the kitchen reads as such.......

 

Vanilla ice cream

 

4 separated eggs

100g icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

300ml double cream

 

I won't post the method as the whole thing might be copyrighted but I don't want to waste my eggs & cream if this recipe isn't much cop.

 

I have searched the forum but can't put my hands on a recipe for vanilla ice cream, unless I'm looking in the wrong place, & so if anyone has made ice cream before that doesn't call for an ice cream making machine as this recipe doesn't then I would be most grateful, & we can have home made rhubarb crumble & home made ice cream for pudding after our tea tonight!

[Guest]

Jules, that is almost identical to the recipe in the River Cottage Family Cookbook

 

It just swaps icing sugar for caster sugar.

 

I have made this ice cream and it was really nice.

 

I separated into 2 bowls and added chopped strawberries to one bowl and left the other plain

 

I keep meaning to do some more but never seem to get round to it

[Jules.]

Thanks Debs- I have the river cottage book as well, & thought i had looked in it this morning for an ice cream recipe- i couldn't find one in it & no wonder, I was looking in 'Jamie at Home"!

 

i still use the lovely naan bread recipe you gave me

[..lay a little egg for me]

I used this one and it was really nice. I used 'fondant icing' sugar that was left over from icing the Xmas cake last year and I think the softening agent (glucose I think) in the icing sugar helped the ice cream not to go too hard. I have tried many different ice cream recipes and they often go so hard that we have to serve the ice cream with a carving knife rather than the ice cream scoop!