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Blackberry ice-cream
British hedgerows are adorned with wild blackberries towards the end of August and into September. Try to pick the ripest berries, preferably on a sunny day, which fall into your fingers with no resistance. This is one of my favourite ways to use this special (and free) fruit.
Serves 8-10.
This recipe originally appeared in House and Garden magazine.
Ingredients
- 600ml double cream
- 400ml full fat milk
- 1 vanilla pod
- 6 egg yolks
- 200g caster sugar
- 500g blackberries
Instructions
- Put the cream and milk into a saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and add to the pan with the pod too. Bring to the boil then remove from the heat.
- Beat the yolks and sugar together until pale and creamy. Strain the cream mixture into the yolks, whisking as you go.
- Return to the saucepan and heat, stirring, until the mixture thickens into custard. Remove and cool.
- Blitz the blackberries and sieve to make a puree. Stir into the custard and taste for sugar, the frozen mixture will not taste as sweet and some blackberries are sweeter than others!
- Churn in an ice-cream machine until just frozen then chill in the freezer for at least half an hour before serving.
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