Recipe: Strawberry Ice Cream

A haiku:

Cool, creamy, and pink

Dotted with red strawberries

Tastes like the summer

And a recipe:

Strawberry Ice Cream

1 small box instant vanilla pudding (made with box directions, milk added)

2 cups mashed berries

2 cups sugar

1 pint whipping cream

1 can evaporated milk

Mix all the ingredients together and chill until very cold. Then pour into your ice cream maker’s canister. Churn until thickened, then freeze for a couple hours to firm it up.

I made this recipe yesterday. Pudding mix is an interesting ingredient, but it works — this ice cream is good. The recipe made enough mix for two batches of ice cream for me (I used a Cuisinart duo flavor ice cream maker and the canisters are a bit smaller than other makers). Be sure not to overfill your ice cream maker — fill it 3/4 full only to leave room for the ice cream to aerate and grow.

This article appears in Jun 2-9, 2009.