Monday 10 March 2014

Wild Blackberry Ice Cream












When someone bakes me a cake I want to give them a huge bear hug. When someone cooks me a meal I want to cover them in big, sloppy kisses. So you can only imagine how I feel about my beautiful sister and her gorgeous family who risked the skin on their arms and legs to pick me these magnificent and outrageously black blackberries. I'm wild about 'em.




Wild Blackberry Ice Cream
adapted from Food Network

1kg fresh wild blackberries (or store-bought)
1 1/4 cup caster sugar
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 cup full-cream milk
5 egg yolks
2 cup cream

Put the blackberries, lemon juice and 1/4 cup of the sugar into a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce to simmer and cook for 20 minutes until the blackberries have softened and the liquid becomes syrupy.

Strain the mixture through a fine sieve using a spoon to push the deep crimson liquid out. Discard the blackberry solids. Refrigerate the syrup until cold.

Heat the milk and the remaining 1 cup of sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.

In the bowl of an electric mixture fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the egg yolks until pale and moussy. Pour a tablespoon of the hot milk into the whipped egg yolks and whisk. Add another tablespoon of the hot milk and whisk again. This will bring the temperature of the eggs up and prevent the eggs from curdling when the rest of the hot liquid goes in. This is known as tempering. Gradually pour the rest of the hot milk into the eggs, whisking all the time. Now pour all of the mixture back into the saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until thickened, about 3 minutes. This is the custard.

Pour the cream into the berry syrup, and then pour in the custard and stir to combine. Refrigerate the mixture until cold.

Churn the mixture in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions. Pour the ice cream into a freezer-safe container and freeze until set.

Remove the ice cream from the freezer about 20 minutes to softened a little before serving.

16 comments:

  1. Freshly picked blackberries??? I can understand that it is amazing! We have a little rasberry bushes behind my parent's house and it's the best rasberries ever! I'm sure that your ice cream is full of love!

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    1. That's exactly what it is, full of love. I couldn't have put it better myself.

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  2. What a lovely gift and what an even lovelier thing to make with it! Can't wait for wild blackberry days!

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  3. That color!! Beautiful! Agree with Maria -- cannot wait for our blackberry time!!

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  4. Ahh! You care making me long for summer! What a beautiful post! That purple is just gorgeous...

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    1. Thanks Emilie. I'm calling this colour "End of Summer".

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  5. You were so right! Risking their epidermis was so worth it :) This looks delightful, and as you know I am in love with my ice cream maker at the moment :)
    I won't have to risk life and limb though, no wild blackberries here in urban Brisbane! Guess I'll have to just risk my credit card and pick them up at the farmer's market instead :) Gorgeous photos as always too!

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    1. I'm one incredibly lucky (and appreciative) woman.

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  6. This looks extremely delicious. I want to eat it now!

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  7. The colour of this is to die for!

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    1. I think I should market that colour. What do you think?

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