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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote in [community profile] weekly_food_challenge2017-06-05 12:31 pm

Easy ice cream-no churn, no machine

OK, so it's "Treats" at the moment, and [personal profile] miss_s_b insists I post my new ice cream method here.

Backstory: my ice cream maker is broken and I can't afford to fix it, and I had a cupboard with some ingredients that needed using, so I googled. I have adapted this from multiple articles.

Ingredients:
600ml Double Cream (USians: I believe "heavy cream")
1 tin Condensed Milk (sweetened)—the 14oz tin now sold in metric
Flavouring (eg: 2 tsp vanilla essence)

Put the cream and the milk in a mixing bowl and whisk, preferably with an electric whisk but a hand whisk will do, it'll just take an age. When soft peaks are beginning to form, add in your flavouring and whisk a bit more, making sure that you've got any edge bits incorporated nicely.

Pour into either 2 1-litre tubs or one bigger tub, put in the freezer for at least 3 hours, preferably overnight. Enjoy.

You might find it needs to be removed from the freezer a bit before serving up as it might go very solid.

Variants: Nestle make a 'caramel' condensed milk, use that and, if you want, add a teaspoon or 2 of salt for salted caramel. Any other oil base or highly concentrated flavouring, it's important the water content is low.

This works because condensed milk and double cream are very low in water content, so you don't get ice crystals or similar. Jennie didn't like my salted caramel that I made last night, which, y'know, more for me...
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[personal profile] norfolkian 2017-06-05 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I never knew it was so easy to make ice cream!
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[personal profile] miss_s_b 2017-06-07 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The vanilla one was AMAZING.
The salted caramel didn't work for me.
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this is so cool!

[personal profile] beachglass 2017-06-06 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
corny joke :P
thanks for sharing!