Home-Made Ice Cream

The other night I was looking through a collection of recipes that my mom has accumulated throughout the years. I came across her recipe for raspberry lavender ice-cream. Now you might be thinking: "Eww!! that sounds discussing. Who would want to eat that?" However, you would be wrong there. It it is a delicious hybrid of sorbet/ice cream goodness!!

So, here is the recipe!

-Cream mixture- 

1/2 cup milk (I used skim) 

1/2 cup half and half

3/4 cup sugar 

1/2 tsp vanilla 

2 sprigs of lavender 

Place everything in a small pot and put on high heat. Continue stirring mixture until the milk scalds. Place in a shallow dish and in the freezer until the milk is cooled. 

*Scalding the milk is a very important part of the process as it infuses the milk with lavender flavour and allows the sugar to completely dissolve.*

-Fruit Mixture- 

3 cups frozen raspberries 

1/2 cup sugar 

Juice of one lemon 

Zest of half a lemon 

PLUS 1 cup of butter milk, to be added later. 

Blend everything in a food processor, until everything is combined. You don't want everything to be completely smooth, but you don't want huge chunks of fruit. You want somewhere in between.  Place mixture in a shallow tupperware, and put in freezer until chilled. 

Once the fruit and cream mixtures are both chilled, mix them together and then add the buttermilk. 

Then place in your ice cream maker, and process according to your machines' instructions.