Money can’t buy me love

But this does:

Separate 3 egg yolks into a large ceramic or metal bowl. Stir in half a cup of caster sugar, and vigorously whisk with a fork- it’ll go slightly creamy.

Pour a 300 ml tub of thickened cream and a littel under half a cup of full cream milk into a saucepan. Slooowly heat it until it’s hot, but don’t boil it.

Slowly pour the milk/cream mix into the egg/sugar mix while vigorously stirring, so there’s no lumps.

Return all the mixture to the saucepan and heat until nearly, but not quite boiling again. When the mixture is a little thicker, so that it has a consistency that might give Misstress M and Cinkitty ideas and/or giggles, chill it in the fridge for a few hours.

Obtain an icecream maker. They’re pretty cheap- I found one for about $50 that has a metal bowl full of antifreeze or something, that you put in the freezer overnight, and this goes into a machine that basically stirs whatever is in there while it freezes.

When the mixture is cool (this is actually important- warm mixture will take too long to freeze and the ice cream maker bowl will warm up before it’s done) flavour it with something- dark drinking chocolate, coffee, smooshed up and stewed mango/strawberries, vanilla, whatever, and put it into the icecream maker until it’s done.

If you really want, freeze some chocolate treats and hit them with a hammer so that they smash into a million bits and add those, but right at the end or they’ll clog the icecream maker.

Stick the icecream into a plastic container, lick the stirrer (but not the bowl as it’s still probably cold enough to stick your tongue to it) and put the icecream in the freezer for a few hours until it’s hard.

Then, serve it in a cone to the 10 year old son who’s mother unexpectedly turned up one day and gave him to you, saying, essentially it’s your turn now.

~ by mildlyannoyedaussie on January 31, 2009.