Red Fruit Salad with Vanilla Ice Cream

Name: Red Fruit Salad with Vanilla Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 10 fl oz (300 ml) double cream; 1 punnet ripe raspberries; 1 punnet ripe strawberries; 3 oz (75 g) caster sugar; ½ punnet redcurrents; 1 whole vanilla pod; 8 egg yolks; 1 punnet tayberries; 10 fl oz (300 ml) milk; juice of 1 lemon; 8 oz (225 g) fresh cherries, pitted; 1 tablespoon cognac

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Shaun Hill's Cookery Book

By Shaun Hill

Published 1990

About

Sadly there will only ever be two or three weeks a year when this salad can be made, that brief period when strawberries have not quite finished but raspberries have begun.

Ingredients

Vanilla Ice Cream

8 egg yolks
3 oz (75 g) caster sugar

Dessert
Gluten-free
ice cream
Vegetarian

Method

The vanilla ice cream

Beat the egg yolks and sugar together until they are creamy and thick. Boil the cream and milk with the vanilla pod, then pour into a blender and process.
Pour on to the egg and sugar whisking all the time. Stir over a low heat until the texture first loosens and then thickens slightly, showing it has cooked.
Leave the cus