Make your own ice cream

Hamptonian

For those who don't want to use cream and/or sugar, I find Elmlea Double Light and Sainsbury's SlendaSweet make excellent substitutes in homemade ice cream..

knitknack

We do make icecream and always have some in the freezer, but i also make lots of frozen yogurt, which you can scoop up and shove in a cone, which means the kids love it and I let them have pretty much as many as they like on a hot day cause it's so much healthier (bar the sugar!):

our method

Tip one big pot of natural yogurt into your food processor
Tip in one cup sugar or less
Tip in one punnet of whatever fruit is cheap and ripe

Whizz, stick in icecream maker, freeeze:

Eat lots knowing it's low fat and full of fruit!

hehehe

Ezmondino

Has anyone had a go at just blending frozen fruit on a cutting blade, like raspberries, and butter milk? Suppose to be like an instant ice cream.

Justamum

Sparky67 wrote: »

Is an ice cream maker worth the money? Or do you get a good enough result doing it the old fashioned way??

I was lucky as I found an ice-cream maker at the dump. It works so I just gave it a good clean and it looks almost new. It's an automatic one so has saved me a fortune in buying one. I haven't actually made any ice-cream yet as I want to find some vegan recipes.

OMR

This is a really cheap ice cream & we all like it, but you have to have a tin 'done' already...

Lge tin evaporated milk
6oz icing sugar
Flavour (see below)

Cover an unopened tin of evaporated milk (not condensed) with water & simmer for 15 mins. Take out & when cold, chill (still unopened) in fridge overnight, or for a few days or weeks!
Open tin & whisk (like egg whites) 'til really stiff.
Add 6oz sieved icing sugar.
Whisk until blended, but don't overwhisk.
Put in container & freeze. No need to whisk during freezing.

Flavourings
COFFEE: Add a paste (cold) made previously with 2 or 3 teaspoons of instant coffee in boiling water.
CHOCOLATE: Ditto using cocoa.
VANILLA: Add a few drops of vanilla essence.
FRUIT: Add strawberry, apricot, raspberry or banana pulp.
CITRUS: Add juice to taste.

I simmer several tins at once & keep them in the fridge. You could make some half boxes, then the next day put another layer of a different flavour on the top.

I have an icecream maker, but I tend to only use that for freezing shop-bought fruit yoghurt for a quick pudd.

Seakay

Tofu ice-cream

450g tofu
half a pint of fruit juice (or diluted fruit syrup eg grape diluted 4:1 makes a sweet pink ice-cream, apple diuted 7:1 makes a sweet white ice-cream)

optional flavourings: carob syrup, cardommom powder, nuts and raisins etc.

Liquidise the tofu with the fruit juice (or just water and sweeten to taste), add any flavourings you fancy and freeze.

Remove from the freezer 25 minutes before serving.

Taken from "Tofu and it's uses" published by the wholefood cookery school.

rosepink

If you have a basic vanilla ice cream you can make a delicious brown bread ice cream ! Much nicer than it sounds!

Use stale brown bread to make breadcrumbs. Sprinkle onto a baking sheet and scatter over some brown sugar. Bake in a hot oven until the sugar has melted and the crumbs are even browner! Let it cool then stir thru your ice cream and freeze again. It is like a praline ice cream.

Also try mixing in some mincemeat , which you would usually use for mince pies at christmas. Freeze again . This makes a lovely ice cream which my family prefer to Christmas pudding!

You can also melt mars bars or after eight mints in the microwave for quick sauces for a plain ice cream!

mum2one

These sound gorgeous.......x

Elizabeth_739

Someone asked for a Christmas ice cream - I have a fantastic version I've used for years. Sometimes I follow it to the letter, sometimes I cheat, everyone loves it whatever. Use either a good home made vanilla ice cream or cheat and use a shop bought one. Soften enough to allow you to fold in fruit, nuts, cherries etc. spices and brandy/sherry whatever you like - in fact all the things you put into a real Christmas pudding, then freeze it in a pudding basin. I started this as an alternative pudding but my family all expect it now, we have a black traditional pud and a white ice cream pud, both with holly on the top. Looks great!!!

An even easier version to cheat with is just bought ice cream with mincemeat and cherries stirred in. Once its tipped out like a pud no-one even notices!!!

love everyone's recipes - thanks
Elizabeth

jumblejack

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van
covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped
himself.