Lemon Ice Cream

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    2 quarts

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
China Moon Cookbook

By Barbara Tropp

Published 1992

  • About

This is my unabashed favorite ice cream, a silky light ice cream alive with the taste of lemon. It is to my adult tongue what the Italian lemon ices on the Bradley Beach, New Jersey boardwalk were to my kid tongue—happy addiction, almost a reason for living.

Commercial supermarket lemons, as long as you scrub them zealously before use, are fine here. If you’re living in California, also try this recipe with the indigenous Meyer lemons; they’re super.

This ice cream holds its