Fresh Lemon Ice-Cream

Do you know what is amazing?  Ice-cream.

Do you know what is even more amazing?  HOMEMADE ICE-CREAM.

I know, I was sort of on the fence about it, too.  I mean, any kind of ice-cream is delicious!  Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia?  Oh my word!  How could anything, homemade or no, beat that?  But last year, my parents-in-law bought an ice-cream maker.  And B, unable to resist trying out a fancy new gadget, made us strawberry ice-cream using nothing but fresh berries, sugar, and cream.

I died.  It was literally food heaven.  I've been dreaming about it ever since. 

So this year we put homemade ice-cream right at the top of our holiday To Eat list.  It was too late for strawberries, so we decided to use lemons instead.

The recipe is from this very cute and beautifully illustrated book.   We had to use caster sugar in place of icing sugar because I misread the labels in the supermarket (it seemed to work just fine).  Other than the sugar we used 330ml cream, and 3 lemons - zest and juice.   The ice-cream maker does all the hard work for you - you literally throw in the ingredients and switch it on.

The ice-cream turned out to be the prettiest shade of pale yellow.  And it had an amazing, subtle taste of lemon - the sourness of the fruit was counteracted by all the sugar, so you just got its summery flavour coming through on its own.  Dee-lish-oos.