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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] miss_s_b
This recipe is in imperial rather than metric measurements because milk still comes in pints over here.

Equipment
  • Slow cooker (Crock pot?)
  • Tablespoon
  • possibly a measuring jug if your milk doesn't come in pints?

Ingredients
  • 6oz pudding rice
  • 3 pints milk
  • 4 tablespoons of golden syrup
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • Knob of butter - the size of your knob is up to you

Method
  • Put the pudding rice, the milk, the syrup and the Knob into the slow cooker.
  • Cut open the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds into the slow cooker. It's imperative you do this as quickly as possible to retain maximum flavour.
  • Put the actual pod bits of the vanilla pod into a jar of sugar; this will flavour the sugar for use in cakes etc. Put this aside for another recipe.
  • Turn on the slow cooker and go do something else for a bit - recommended setting is high but slow cookers are ridiculously variable, so use your judgement.
  • Stir after about 2 hours.
  • It'll be ready anywhere between 3 and 6 hours depending on your slow cooker - it should be thick and creamy and not runny.

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