Name: Oat Financiers with Peach Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: ½ cup all-purpose flour; ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt; ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar; ⅓ cup plus 2 tablespoons old-fashioned rolled oats; 4 ounces (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter; ⅔ cup (3 ounces) whole natural almonds, toasted; 1⅓ cups heavy (whipping) cream; ½ cup milk; 4 fresh peaches; About 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, optional; 4 large egg whites; ½ cup granulated sugar; ½ teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice; Large pinch of kosher salt; 10 tablespoons sugar; 2 pounds ripe peaches

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Passion for Ice Cream

By Emily Luchetti

Published 2006

About

When I asked friends for their memories of homemade ice cream, the flavor that kept coming up was peach. Baby boomers like me fidgeted through the hand churning of the ice cream machine, but it was worth the wait. Often, the ice cream never made it to the freezer but disappeared behind stabbing spoons as it was devoured right from the canister. My family was generally orderly and gracious, but when it came to peach ice cream, it was survival of the fittest. Whoever got the dasher, usually t