Since adopting the starch free diet last year for the arthritis I have one major dietary weakness – ice cream. It is my big treat now that cookies (sigh…) and chips are out. I treat myself to Haagen-Das or Breyers once a week. I kept wondering how hard it would be to make ice cream from the goat’s milk. We still haven’t gotten an ice-cream maker, however, so it was just sort of random musing.
A couple weeks ago I googled some basic custard ice cream recipes. I noticed some comments mentioned just freezing it and stirring periodically. Last night I gave it a whirl with this recipe. I used straight goat’s milk, versus the half milk, half cream. Since goat’s milk is naturally homogenized its all in there already. Being maker-less, it went right into the freezer in tupperware and was stirred a couple times. Oh my! Ohmyohmyohmy! It was incredible. Forget cheese. I love my goats but hate goat cheese of any variety. But goat’s milk ice cream….. Wow.
Ingredients
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream or whipping cream
2 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract (not imitation!)
Directions
1 Beat eggs very well with a mixer, gradually add sugar beat until thick and lemon colored.
2 Stir in milk and heat, stirring until thickened.
3 Remove from heat and cool mixture.
4 Add cream and vanilla, cover and chill mixture.
5 Pour into ice cream maker and follow manufactures directions.
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We have a little cuisinart ice cream maker, and we totally second your ‘oh my’. It is the best in the world. John is lactose intolerant but not to raw milk, and that is his all time favorite treats.
oooh!
yummm!
I was just musing about this possibility on our walk last night as my dh was licking Rita’s frozen custard off of a spoon and I was longing to have some that didn’t kill my sugar numbers…
Thank you!
(“gee God, that was fast…”) LOL!
Four “ohmy’s” and a “wow” are plenty to convince me since that’s the kind of language I speak when something is just too good! 🙂 I’m going to pick up my raw goat’s milk this afternoon, and guess wheat I’ll be doing with it this week?
I’ve enjoyed (and benefitted from) all of your recent posts. The Emerson-Buddhist quote comparison was really interesting. Great quotes!
Thanks for that recipe. 🙂
Susan
Soo….if I smother this with hot fudge sauce, will it still be low carb? 😀
I’ll have to give this a try!
I remember how great goat’s milk ice cream was, we never had any milk leftover to even try making cheese!
I sent this on to my goat-raising aunt. We’re about to move near her and, though I love the benefits and thought of goat’s milk, hate the taste. I’ll have to give this a whirl. Maybe the sugar will drown out the taste. :<) Can you tell me more about the starch-free diet for arthritis? (Maybe a link or something?)