Peach Ice Cream Recipe
The combined flavour of homemade ice cream and peaches is one that is
hard to top. One of the fun things about making your own ice cream is to
be able to blend different flavors right into the
mixture as the ice cream is being churned. Unlike buying flavoured ice
creams, when you make your own fruit flavoured ice creams, you know for
a fact that the fruit you mix in with the other ingredients is
absolutely pure and absolutely fresh. And since most homemade ice cream
is eaten within a day after it is made, you get that taste of very fresh
fruit mixed with your ice cream that no ice cream you buy at the store
can possibly compete with.
There are times of the year when peaches are just ripening that you
can go to a local orchard and harvest them right off the tree. That is
the time to make up your homemade ice cream using these peaches that
could not be fresher. The flavour of the peaches is so active at that
time that they are almost unrecognisable from the flavour of peaches
from the supermarket. So if you get home from picking peaches and get
busy putting together the standard ingredients for homemade ice cream to
mix up in your ice cream machine, you can add peaches as the ice cream
is being made so they freeze right into the mixture for a wonderful
taste treat.
The two best ways to add the taste of fresh peaches to your ice cream
is chunky and creamy. The easy way is to just cut and clean the peaches
and perhaps skin them. Cut the peaches into bite-sized
pieces. Then mix up the ice cream in your churn or ice cream machine.
During the process of mixing, add in the cut peaches and let them churn
into the mix. They will disperse throughout the
mixture and some of the pieces will blend into the recipe to give all of
the ice cream a wonderful peach flavour. But when the homemade ice cream
is done and you serve it, the frozen peaches will be part of the ice
cream so each bite will bring an explosion of peach flavour with each
chunk you enjoy.
You can achieve the same flavour but make the ice cream even more
permeated with the flavour of peach by putting the skinned peaches into
the food processor and blending them into a paste. Add that to the ice
cream that is being prepared for churning and close up the ice cream
machine and let it do its work. When you take out the finished ice
cream, it will have a rich peach colour and the aroma of peach will fill
the room. It will be hard to leave the soft ice cream alone to let it
finish in the freezer. But it will be worth it because your peach ice
cream will have a flavour that can't be beat. |
