Muscat Ice
- 1 1/2 pounds gooseberries
- 6 ounces sugar, superfine
- 1 cup yogurt
- Put the gooseberries into a heavy-based saucepan or casserole.
- The fruit should be still damp from rinsing under the tap but there is no point in spending time topping and tailing it as it is going to be sieved.
- Add the florets of elder blossom, stripped from their stalks, and bury them among the fruit.
- Cover tightly and cook in a low oven until the fruit is tender and pulpy, for about 2 hours.
- Or cook over a very gentle flame if preferred.
- Add the sugar and stir until it no longer feels gritty.
- Then rub the fruit and every drop of its sugary juices through a sieve to make a perfectly smooth seeless puree.
- As soon as it is cold, spoon the pale aromatic puree into a chilled loaf tin, cover it and freeze.
- About an hour later, when the ice is firm around the edges but still soft in the centre, beat it or whizz it in a food-processor until mushy.
- Gently fold in the yoghurt, cover and freeze until solid all the way through.
- Then turn out the ice-cream, beat it again to break up any ice crystals and transfer it to 8 petit pots de chocolat.
- Cover and freeze until about 1 hour before serving, when the ice-cream should be placed in the fridge to "ripen" it.
- Amaretti biscuits go very well with this.
gooseberries, sugar, yogurt
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/muscat-ice-45904 (may not work)