Recipe: Strawberry

Old Mitchy went back to basics this week with this classic flavour.

500g ripe strawberries
300g sugar
juice of half a lemon
300ml milk
300ml double cream (i'm sure the single stuff is still fine, i just felt like experimenting)
4 egg yolks
1tsp vanilla

Take the green bits off the strawberries, put them (the berries, not the green bits) in a bowl with the sugar and lemon juice and crush them with a potato masher. Put the whole sloppy mess in a saucepan and simmer briefly until the sugar is dissolved.

Make the custard with the eggs 'n' milk 'n' vanilla (note - no need to add sugar to the custard for this one, cos it's all in with the berries).

Once the custard is cool, mix in the cream (the double cream is kinda thick, so you might want to use a whisk to break it up a little). Once the strawberries are cool, mix everything together. Look at the pretty pink shade. Refrigerate. Pour it in the machine and Bob's your bloody uncle!

Remarks: Some ICS patrons claimed this was their favorite flavour to date. High praise indeed! Personally, I found it delicious, but nothing to write home about (although, it seems, it is something to write on your ice cream blog about.) Different strokes for different folks though, I guess. The pieces of crushed stawberries probably could have been a bit smaller, as they tended to form a big frozen clump around the paddle of the ice cream machine...