Ice cream for summer evening

In Estonian

Ice cream recipe with 2 different fillings. One with strawberry- peppermint filling and other one with raisins saturated with Old Tallinn liqueur  and digestive biscuits.


Ice cream:
4 L size egg yolks
4 tbsp sugar
200 ml milk
200 ml whipping cream

Heat milk until boiling.
At the same time mix egg yolks and sugar. 
Take the pot from the cooker and add egg-sugar mix in small parts. Mix all the time and convince that egg will not coagulate. Add pot back to the cooker and keep stirring all the time until you get vanilla sauce with slightly thick consistence.  Cool down the mix and add whipping cream. Make ice cream using ice cream machine. 

Mix with desired filling and put ice cream to freezer for thickening.


Peppermint- strawberry filling:
3 peppermint stalks
50 g sugar
250 g strawberries
2 tbsp of finely chopped peppermint leaves

Chop the strawberries and put these with sugar and peppermint stalks to boil at low heat.
Cook until you have got thick filling.
Take peppermint stalks out filling and throw away.
Cool the filling and add finely chopped peppermint leaves.


Raisin and biscuit filling:
50 g light small raisins
5 pcs digestive biscuits
25 g Old Tallinn liqueur

Put raisins and liqueur to bowl and keep overnight.
Add raisins and crushed biscuits to the ice cream.