Seriously, who does not love ice cream?
Do not remember when I first fell in love with it, but one of my most memorable memory of ice cream was tasting Coney Island's (an American ice cream franchise) bubble gum flavour. I loved the bubble gum in an ice cream, and even enjoying a bubble gum or two when all the ice cream has melted in my mouth ... YUM YUM!!!
There was also a time, that I made myself some Popsicles, using good old orange fizz drink (Royal Tru-Orange) with a mix of coffee milk plus sugar. It tasted like the mass produced orange popsicles of Magnolia ice cream (which is not Nestle-Magnolia). It never was able to reach the satisfaction of having that creamy texture that real cream mixed with sweetened fruits and frozen to perfection.
Eventually, I got myself an ice cream machine (thank you 💋💋💋), and my world started the new leaf of experimentation. I mixed milk with vanilla and sugar ... Reduced the milk with vanilla ... Added some more dried fruits. However, it was never liked the ice cream that I get in Saluti (one of the best local ice cream shop in Zwolle, NL). Then, like any Saturday mornings, while watching a BBC documentary about the early 20th century, they were talking about old time favourite foods and how they made them, they featured one famous delightful dessert ... YES ... obviously ... ICE CREAM!
The recipe was simple ... Cream & Jam (or marmalade) ... !!! YES, just that sweetened stuff we put on our toasts or crackers ... Or even at times on our roasted ham or chicken! So, true to my routine, I got myself ready to try it out ... went to the kitchen, took the 2 litre jug of cream (yes, I have one always in the fridge ... One needs cream to make those sauces ... Or just to give your soup that extra touch) and searched the strawberry jam we got from the Christmas package.
Mixed the jam-marmalade & cream with a ratio of 1:2, made sure that there were no lumps and poured the mixture into the ice machine. After an hour (using a MagiMix, love it because it has its own cooling element in it where you wouldn't need to freeze in a freezer ... You just turn it on while you start thinking of making some ice cream - approximately 10-15 minutes before you pour the mixture - and you are ready to use it), I had a creamy ice cream devoid of ice crystals. Creaminess that I have dreamt ... Tried it again another time, but this time I got from the shop Lime Curd ... Same ratio, the result was ice cream with that hint of lime to die for ... Repeated and served this a number of times, and everyone just LOVED IT!
That was a couple of months ago, but these days springtime, having a typical Dutch summer, trimming to get ready for the regular sailing cruise in Turkey (hopefully, this time, I can have a flatter tummy). To avoid the fat, got myself a Turkish-Greek type of yoghurt with 10% fat content, and following the same jam-marmalade & cream ratio of 1:2, then pouring it in the ice cream maker.
For my first try, I used orange marmalade, which has the loveliest orange rinds in them.
The only advice I would give, is to use the best jam-marmalade, as it is the one that would MAKE it!
EET SMAKKELIJK!
