So I made this rather brilliant ice cream last month. And even though the sunny weather that was ideal for its consumption seems to have disappeared, I thought it was still worth writing about. The recipe is from the also rather brilliant Food Stories blog, and I followed it to the letter apart from the substitution of cognac for brandy. This was the first time I've made a proper custard-based ice cream, but it was surprisingly simple. I also lack an ice cream maker so had to hand churn at regular intervals. This was probably not ideal, as the texture of the ice cream was not quite as smooth as I'd hoped for (though still acceptable) and the prunes got a bit mushed. So although the end product was still delicious, I am beginning to think that it might be worth investing in a proper ice cream maker now.
Anyway, even sans ice cream maker I will definitely be making this again and am adding it to my list of why prunes are great!
1 comment:
I'm loving this ice cream, my favourite is a good rum and raisin, so I guess this will be fairly similar. Not that it's the time of year for ice cream but I can always turn the heating up!
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