1st Place Lemon Ice Cream For Ice Cream Maker Recipes

SUPER LEMON ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine heavy cream, half and half, sugar, and lemon zest in a saucepan; bring to a simmer over low heat. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Cover saucepan and allow the mixture to steep for 10 minutes.
• Uncover pan and bring back to a simmer over low heat. Beat the egg yolks in a bowl. Gradually stir one cup of the hot cream mixture into the eggs, several tablespoons at a time. This will help to bring the eggs up to temperature without scrambling them. Stir the egg mixture back into the cream mixture in the saucepan. Cook and stir over low heat until the mixture just coats the back of a spoon, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl; cover. Refrigerate overnight.
• Stir the lemon juice into the cold ice cream mixture. Freeze in a 4 to 5 quart ice cream maker according to manufacturer's directions. Transfer ice cream to a lidded freezer container, and freeze for 4 hours to ripen flavors before serving.

FRESH LEMON ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Mix the cream, milk, and sugar together and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Add the food coloring if you are going to use it.
• Make sure your mixture and your lemon juice are cold, and when you are just about to add the cream to your ice cream maker, add the lemon juice and extract. Pour into the machine and process according to the instructions. On the basic Cuisinart machine it takes about 20 minutes.
• You can eat it soft right from the machine, or freeze it longer for a firmer scoop.

1ST PLACE LEMON ICE CREAM (FOR ICE CREAM MAKER)

Steps:

• Place all ingredients directly into ice cream maker.
• Stir well, until smooth.
• Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
• Note: This one takes a bit longer to fully firm up, but it's worth it!

LEMON ICE CREAM (LEMON GELATO)

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients until sugar dissolves. Wait 1 minute, then check bottom of glass bowl to see if sugar is really dissolved, if settlement, then continue whisking.
• Pour mixture into ice-cream maker freezer drum (frozen for at least 10 hours prior to making lemon ice cream) and process according to manufacturers instructions. Mine was about 25 minutes.
• Transfer lemon gelato to loaf pan, 2 qt glass or plastic container with lid and freeze until desired hardness, at least 4 hours or overnight.
• Keep ice cream covered with foil, plastic wrap or BPA free reusable silicone covers.

LEMON-BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine lemon juice and 1/4 cup of sugar. Place over medium-low heat, and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat, and allow to cool.
• In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the milk, buttermilk, heavy cream, and 1/4 cup of sugar. Place over medium-low heat until steam rises from the surface. Remove from heat.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine egg yolks with remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Whisk to blend. While continuing to whisk yolks, slowly drizzle about a cup of the hot milk mixture into them, to gradually warm them. Add yolk mixture to saucepan. Return saucepan to medium-low heat, and stir with a wooden spoon until mixture has thickened enough to coat the back of the spoon.
• Strain mixture into a bowl, and place in a bowl of ice water to cool. Add lemon syrup and stir well. Freeze in an ice cream maker, according to the manufacturer's instructions.

SIMPLE LEMON ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, heat milk to 175°; stir in sugar until dissolved. Cool completely. Stir in lemon juice. , In a large bowl, beat cream until stiff; fold in vanilla and cooled milk mixture. Pour into a 9-in. square dish. Freeze for 4 hours or until firm, stirring at least once. Remove from the freezer 10 minutes before serving.

LEMON ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a saucepan whisk together the zest, the lemon juice, the sugar, and the eggs, whisk in 1 cup of the half-and-half and the vanilla, and cook the mixture over moderately high heat, whisking constantly, until it just comes to a simmer. Strain the custard through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on the zest, and chill it, covered with plastic wrap, until it is cold. Whisk in the remaining 1 cup half-and-half and freeze the mixture in an ice-cream freezer according to the manufacturer's instructions. Makes about 1 quart.