Best food idea of the summer so far, on about the only summer's day. Doubtless it has been done before, but I hadn't heard of it - and my wife was the one who suggested this way of using our limited crop of black- and redcurrants, about 250 grammes in total. Birds and bad weather did for the rest - last year we had perhaps five times as much.
I used some cheap and cheerful brioche rolls, but it could be made perfectly easily with sliced white bread, buttered well (both sides if you wish) layered bread-fruit-bread-fruit-bread, with a sprinkle of sugar on the fruit each time, and again on the top. A custard made with four of our eggs (small ones from the newer chickens), a pint of milk, and about eight teaspoons of sugar all whisked together was poured over the rest, then the pudding popped in an oven at 180 centigrade for 40 minutes.
The fruit burst, colouring some of the custard purple, and the top was glazed with sugar. Left until it was just warm it was delicious.
Monday 9 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Best Coffee Ice Cream Ever
Last night we ate half the coffee ice cream I made on Sunday. Had a medium tub of double cream and some from another, used the yolks of four of our lovely fresh eggs and some sugar to make a nice thick custard, and flavoured it with some coffee flavoured tequila (left over from a review, very coffee, not much else). Our cheapo ice cream machine did the rest. The alcohol helps keep it soft, even after half a day in the freezer. It was wonderful, even if I say so myself. Which I do. But then home-made ices are generally so much better than the shop-bought stuff, no stinting on flavour or ingredients. Glut time for strawbs on the allotment, so some will soon be a sorbet (fruit, sugar, lemon juice, zapped and put in the machine).
Homemade ices are cheap too - strawberry sorbet for us just the cost of a few spoons of sugar and the electricity needed to run the machine for 10 - 15 minutes.
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