Date Ice Cream
Mar. 20th, 2023 10:43 pmMore ice cream adventures.
Tub 49 & 50:
Yes this is two tubs, I ended up making twice as much as I needed to fill one tub, so I filled two tubs.
- 500g date paste
- 2 tablespoons Treacle (aka Molasses)
- 500ml full cream milk
- 8 tablespoons Natvia
The date paste was from a middle-eastern grocery. It was a brown slab of pure dateness, about the consistency of fudge or hard caramel. That is, I could cut it with a knife, but had to press down with both hands. So I cut it into cubes. It was very difficult to puree with the milk; if I hadn't been using a genuine Bamix I'm sure it would have broken my stick-blender. The motor got pretty hot, and it took quite a while. If I were to do this again, I would puree it one cube at a time instead of trying to do them all at once. The mixture ended up being quite thick, and a light brown colour.
I can't remember what setting I used on the Ninja Creami, but when it was done, the date-cream had been truly pulverized, it was almost liquid, like half-melted soft-serve. So I put it back into the freezer. When I checked it the next day, it had not frozen solid like every other Ninja Creami tub that I'd put back. No, it was actually a perfect ice-cream consistency, perfectly scoopable. Fascinating.
The taste was date. Date date date date. You couldn't tell there had been treacle added. And I realised that, while I like date, I don't like it enough to eat an entire litre of date ice cream. Ah well. You live and learn. I feel as if it needs to be eaten with vanilla sponge cake or pancakes - something to provide a lighter accent against all the dateness.