Recipe of Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

• 600 grams Strawberries.
• 175 grams Caster sugar (plus 2 tablespoons).
• 550 ml Full fat milk.
• 500 ml Double cream.
• 1 Vanilla pod.
• 11 Large egg yolks.
• 2 tablespoons Lemon juice.

Procedure

Hull and roughly chop the strawberries put them into a bowl and sprinkle over the 2 tablespoons of caster sugar and leave them to steep and infuse with flavor.Put the milk and cream into a heavy based sauce pan and add the vanilla pod,split down the middle length ways. Bring the pan nearly to the boil and then take it off the heat and leave to infuse for 20-30 minutes.In a large bowl whisk the egg yolks and the 175 grams  cup sugar until thick and pale yellow. 

Take the vanilla pod out of the milk and cream and pour,whisking the while the warm liquid over the yolks.Put the cleaned out pan back on the heat with the cream,milk,egg and sugar mixture and stir the custard until it thickens then take it off the heat and pour it into a bowl to cool.Puree the strawberries in a processor and when the custard is cool fold in the lemon juice and strawberry puree.
                                                            
At this point you have a choice that either you can freeze the ice cream in an ice cream maker or in a plastic tub in the freezer. If you do the latter you should whip it out every hour for 3 hours as it freezes and give it a good beating,either with an electric whisk by hand or in the processor.That gets rid of any ice crystals that form and that make the ice cream crunchy rather than smooth.The ice cream is ready serve it and enjoy the taste.