Christmas pudding ice cream

This recipe is very much like a recipe that I posted a few week ago of a ice cream that you can make with out using a ice cream making machine. At the time I said that it could be adapted to all sorts of flavour and this one is a real festive treat and a real alternative to Christmas pudding . Set it in small pudding bowls and turn them out on a plate.

For the basic ice cream you will need

1 pint/ 570ml of whipping cream

4 eggs

4oz/110g caster or icing sugar

1 apples pealed cored and diced

25g/1oz candied peel, chopped

25g/1oz sultanas

25g/1oz raisins

25g/1oz currants

⅓ tsp mixed spice

2tdsp  brandy

To start by separating your eggs so you have egg whites and yolks all nicely separated in two bowls. Then add just a little of the whipping cream No more than a quarter of the pint to a pan and heat up. Take it of the heat before it gets to hot and add it to the egg yolk . Whisk the egg yolks and the cream together, then to this add the candied peel, sultanas, raisins, currants, mixed spice and brandy.  Then put it back on the heat and let the custard thicken with all the dried fruits in it.  Cook it on a very low heat, slow and low so the eggs do not separate in the pan.

You then simply whisk the cream till light and fluffy. Then whisk the egg yolks so that they are all white and frothy then add the sugar a little at a time. This is just the same as making meringues.

Then all you do is genteelly fold all the three ingredients together in one bowl. Then put all of this in to the freezer and you are done, just have to wait it goes solid and you have ice cream.

And that is how you make a Christmas pudding ice cream .