What Fruit’s in Season in November?

Bananas

Berries

strawberries, blueberries, raspberries

Cherries

Cumquats

Grapefruit

Lemons

Loquats

Lychees

Mangoes

Melons

rockmelon, watermelon, honeydew

Oranges

Valencia

Papaya

Pawpaw

Pineapples

Lemon Ice-cream

To have a bowl of lemons on the kitchen bench is one of my favourite things.

As I look at them I ponder that lemons are an amazing fruit because they’re about the only one we don’t actually eat but we use them in so many sweet and savoury dishes, coming from almost every cuisine you can think of.

And as a friend and I agreed the other day, lemon juice is one of the best flavour enhancers you can use at the end of cooking. If you think a dish needs ’something’ but not sure what, just squeeze some lemon juice over it and note the difference!

This recipe is one of the first ice-creams I make at the beginning of the summer season. It then becomes a regular, often served with strawberry and pistachio ice-creams for a beautiful dessert medley. There’s no need to say anything more than that it’s delicious and refreshing.

Ingredients

• 3 lemons
• 225ml water
• 115g castor sugar
• 225ml double cream

Method

1. Wash the lemons well
2. Coarsely zest and juice the lemons
3. Place the zest, water and sugar in a saucepan and boil for 2 minutes - remove from the heat - leave to cool
4. Strain the syrup and finely chop the zest
5. When the syrup is cold, add the zest, lemon juice and cream
6. Churn in an ice-cream machine, place in a covered container and freeze.

OR (if making by hand)

1. Pour mixture into a shallow container and freeze uncovered for 1-2 hours, until ‘mushy’
2. Turn the mixture into a bowl and using a fork, break up the ice crystals
3. Return to the freezer
4. Repeat the breaking up of the ice crystals with the fork every 30 minutes for 2 hours
5. Place in a covered container and freeze

Serves 4

Tips

• Pick lemons that are heavy for their size, with nice clear skins
• Place ice-cream in fridge for 45 minutes before serving
• As you can see, making ice-cream by hand can be time consuming so if you love making and eating it consider buying an ice-cream machine - it really is worth it

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