nectarine ice cream

Does anything quite scream summer, like fresh fruit ice cream? I don’t know about you, but I spent summers in iowa, with a slow churning ice cream maker. I can still taste the fresh peach ice cream, and the smell of copious amounts of rock salt needed to turn the cream mixture into ice cream.

Luckily these days, we don’t need to churn our own ice cream. Counter models and mixer attachments all serve to make homemade ice cream so much easier. So easier, in fact, that we can make it all the time.

This nectarine ice cream, is based on flavors of the past, but you can make it using whatever ice cream maker you have on hand.

Ingredients:

4 eggs

2 1/4 cup sugar

3 1/2 cups milk

3 1/2 cups heavy cream

1 tsp vanilla paste

3/4 tsp almond extract

1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups fresh nectarines, pitted and chopped.

Directions:

Whisk eggs together in a large bowl. Add sugar gradually until combined and mixture is like a thick pancake batter.

Add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.

You can freeze directly or use an ice cream maker of your choice.