Christine Manfield

Candied ginger ice-cream

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

  • About

Wonderful with tropical fruits such as mango, pineapple, custard apple, lychees and rambutans to name a few. Try it, too, with freshly baked gingerbread or waffles and golden syrup.

Ingredients

  • 450 ml full-cream milk
  • 6 large (61 g) egg yolks

Method

  1. Bring milk to a simmer in a saucepan over very low heat.
  2. Whisk egg yolks and castor sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy, then whisk in ginger juice followed by the hot milk.
  3. Stand bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and cook, stirring, until mixture coats back of a spoon. Strain custard through a fine-meshed sieve into a clean bowl. Allow