Christmas Pudding Icecream?

beachbeth

Christmas Pudding Icecream

500ml/16floz best quality ready-made vanilla ice-cream
225g/8oz Christmas pudding, mashed or crumbled finely


Method

1. Allow the ice-cream to soften slightly, then transfer to a bowl and quickly but thoroughly mix in the crumbled Christmas pudding.

2. Return the mixture to the freezer to firm it up before serving.

Wavebird

Nah, you want my Christmas ice-cream recipe. It has none of that christmas pudding crumbled in nonsense (;))

600mls whipping cream
110g dried fruit. I use raisins, sultanas and quartered glace cherries (plus angelica if you can get it/like it).
110g caster sugar
6 tablespoons of rum and port mixed together (3 of each)
teaspoon of mixed spice
3 egg yolks
Orange juice and zest of one orange

Soak the dried fruit in the booze overnight with the orange juice and zest.
Whisk the egg yolks and sugar until pale and thick. Bring half the cream to the boil and pour onto the eggs,whisking as you do it. Put back into the saucepan and heat gently until custard. Cool.
Whip the other half of the cream and fold into the cold custard with the fruit and spice.

Pour into a container and freeze, giving it a bit of a beat every hour and half or so to break up the freezing edges and bring them into the middle. Don't thrash so hard that you mash the fruit to death - if you know what I mean.

We're trying to resist the tubful I've just made. It's really fabulous. I lost the recipe for a few years and that was a terrible time.....