Strawberry Ice Cream

Strawberry Ice Cream recipe: Nigella Lawson - Forever Summer
Ingredients:
- 500g strawberries (3 cups)
- 175g caster sugar, plus 2 tablespoons (¾ cup)
- 500ml full-fat milk (2 cups)
- 500ml double cream (2 cups)
- 1 vanilla pod
- 10 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions:
- Hull and roughly chop the strawberries, put them into a bowl and sprinkle over the 2 tablespoons of caster sugar and leave them to steep and infuse with flavour.
- Pour the milk and cream into a heavy-based saucepan, and add the vanilla pod, split down the middle lengthways. Bring the pan nearly to the boil and then take it off the heat and leave to infuse for 20 minutes.
- In a large bowl whisk the egg yolks and the 175g (½ cup + 1 tablespoon) sugar until thick and pale yellow. Take the vanilla pod out of the milk and cream and pour, whisking the while, the warm liquid over the yolks. Put the cleaned-out pan back on the heat with the cream, milk, egg and sugar mixture and stir the custard until it thickens, then take it off the heat and pour it into a bowl to cool.
- Purée the strawberries in a processor, and when the custard is cool fold in the lemon juice and strawberry purée.
- At this point you can either freeze the ice cream in an ice-cream maker, or in a plastic tub in the freezer. If you do the latter you should whip it out every hour for 3 hours as it freezes and give it a good beating, either with an electric whisk, by hand or in the processer. That gets rid of any ice crystals that form and that make the ice cream crunchy rather than smooth.
* Note: Before you begin making the custard fill the sink half full with cold water. If you think the custard looks like splitting at any stage, plunge the pan into the cold water and whisk like mad.
I wanted to start with a cream-based ice cream, not just a sorbet.


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Comments
please make a sorbet :D
I wish I had some right now it's sooo hot here!
Your blog is so enjoyable and lovely to visit!
Have a fabulous weekend!
I love that you make your own ice cream, its something that I feel totally overwhelmed by to try!
Thank you for your comment on my post at Trish's, I sure she is having a great time away, lucky girl.
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have you try to make the agar2? tell me!
i think i'll try to make ice cream with no ice cream machine technique.
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