A while ago I wrote about my Peach upside down cake. I am sure you all tried it and found it to be as good as I said it was. Well, this weekend I made one for my wife and topped it with huckleberry ice cream. I made this for my wife and she did not think it would be very good.
The combination of the peaches and yellow cake are incredibly good, but the huckleberry is a tart wild blueberry. When you combine the two with the cake and the vanilla ice cream these two different fruits combine to form an incredible taste explosion on your taste buds.
Huckleberries are great because it is so much fun to get out in the hills and enjoy a day of hiking and picking them. They can be used to make jam, toppings for ice cream, pancakes, waffles, or just eaten by themselves.
If you do go out and pick your own, I recommend you make your own ice cream with them. There are many good and inexpensive ice cream makers available and the ice cream is so much better than what you can buy in the store.
Making your own ice cream is fun and really pretty simple. There are many recipes available on the net and most of the ice cream makers come with a recipe book. This is the one I use for making my Huckleberry ice cream. This will also work well with any fruit as well.
Ingredients:
4 egg yolks
1/2 pint milk
1/2 pint double/heavy cream
4 oz sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (or according to taste)
1 pint Huckleberries
First of all, beat and mix together the egg yolks and sugar until thick. Separately, pour the milk into a saucepan and scald it (bring slowly up to boiling point). Pour the hot milk into the egg yolks and sugar mix stirring continuously. Then pour the mixture back into the pan and heat gently, stirring until the custard thickens — DO NOT BRING TO A BOIL OR IT WILL PROBABLY CURDLE. When you can see a film form over the back of your spoon, it’s time to remove the saucepan from the heat. Leave to cool.
This is the custard base and one you can use in many other ice cream recipes where you want a rich, creamy ice cream.
When the custard base is cold, stir in the cream, the vanilla extract, and the huckleberries. I like to slightly crush some of the berries before adding them to release more of the juice into the mix. then transfer the whole mixture into a ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Clacked by Jeff Love
on Jun 16, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
