Recipe For Chestnut Flavor Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 tin (size approx 9oz or 225g) of chestnut purée
2 tablespoons light (single) cream
1/2 pint (250ml) whipping cream
2 oz (50g) icing sugar
Method: Place the purée in a mixing bowl and pour in the single/light cream or milk, mixing until you have a smooth paste. Separately, take the whipping cream and add the sugar. Whip together. When thick (not stiff) add this to the purée paste mixture. Stir gently until fully blended in.
Transfer the complete mixture into an ice cream maker and follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Serves 6
Chestnut ice cream is surprisingly popular - a good example is France where I have seen it on display in a number of ice cream parlors. Here is a photo of some made by a local artisan glacier which I found on sale in Rocamadour, France.
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