Super Lemon Ice Cream
"This is tart and sweet and refreshing, and EASY! No custard-making, no hours of refrigeration, although it does require an ice cream maker. Be sure to read the instructions before prepping your ingredients; this will require 2-3 lemons. From "The Perfect Scoop" by David Leibowitz."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 3 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup lemon juice
- 2 cups half-and-half
- 1 pinch salt
directions
- Zest lemons directly into food processor. Pour in sugar and process until the sugar is faintly lemon-colored and the zest is finely ground.
- Juice the lemons you just zested and pour the measured juice into the sugar/zest mixture. Blend until the sugar dissolves.
- Add half and half and blend. If desired you can add a few drops of yellow food coloring at this point, as the finished product is a very pale, clear, almost-yellow color.
- Chill for about an hour; the product may break up, but just stir it back together.
- Freeze in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer's directions.
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I am a web producer and copy editor at an online newspaper.
Many of my favorite foods are down-home Southern comfort food like my grandmother and mother made, but I also live in an ethnically diverse area and have been able to learn a lot about different styles of cooking. I especially like Asian, Mediterranean and Indian food.
I'm working on learning to cook Indian food and I'm discovering that, like most traditional cuisines, it involves a lot of long complicated processes and a lot of intuition and background knowledge on the part of the cook. Hope I can begin to grasp some of that knowledge eventually.
