Hot hot hot.........

.......It's another lovely, warm day and what better to refresh oneself than with a delicious, cooling, ice cream. This is a really easy and delicious ice cream that is made without a custard base. It has just three ingredients and takes literally minutes to prepare and if you have an ice cream machine about 20 minutes to freeze.

Lemon curd Ice cream is beautifully creamy and delicately perfumed. You can make your own lemon curd if you wish or you can simply buy a jar from the supermarket.

This makes approximately 500 ml. 340g jar lemon curd, 284ml double cream juice and zest of 1 lemon.

Lightly whip the double cream then mix in the lemon curd and the zest and juice of the lemon.

Mix well and then churn in an ice cream maker. Freeze or devour.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy........

Lemon curd is one of my favourites, it is so easy to make I remember making it when I was about 7 years old. If you did fancy making your own there are a few methods to making it but I find this the quickest and best although you have to be careful not to cook the eggs and make it curdle.
You can make it as tart or sweet as you like, just mess about with the quantities of sugar and lemon juice.

Makes approximately 1 small jar
180ml fresh lemon juice
zest of 3 lemons
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
115g unsalted butter

In a saucepan, combine the lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, eggs, and butter. Heat the mix slowly, cooking it gently over a medium heat until it begins to thicken and the whisk leaves marks in the curd. Remove the curd from the heat and place it in a strerilized jar. Keep it in the fridge.