Ice cream
Slaving over a hot stove in the summer is not ideal, so here are some quick and easy ideas to help out in the kitchen this summer.
Make your own ice cream at home in any flavour you choose.
The ingredients:
3/4 pint (375ml) cream or milk,
4oz (100g) sugar,
3 bananas – nicely ripe (to mash up) or another ingredient of your choice
To prepare the mixture:
Mash the bananas well and put into a mixing bowl. Take the cream or milk and pour into the bowl. Mix in well with the bananas. If you do not have an electric ice cream maker to blend/freeze your ice cream then follow the step by step guide:
• Find a suitable recipe and make up the mixture
• Pour your freshly prepared mixture into a fairly wide bowl and put in your refrigerator to chill for between 1 and 2 hours. How long will depend upon whether you've actually heated up or cooked any of the ingredients when making the mixture.
• Remove from the refrigerator and put into your freezer for 30-40 minutes.
• Take the bowl out and check the state of the mixture - it should have started freezing from the outside edges in but not be fully frozen in the centre of the bowl. Place the bowl onto a work surface and beat the mixture well, breaking up any ice crystals and making it smooth again.
• Repeat the above process until the mixture is completely frozen (the process may need to be repeated three or four times).
• And ‘hey presto!’ you have your very own home-made ice cream.
