by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
You don’t need to make an egg custard and you don’t need an ice cream maker to make no churn chocolate ice cream. There isn’t a trace of an ice crystal crunch either. If you leave it to get fully frozen, take it out at least half an hour before you want to eat it and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 10, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
Gourmet ice cream A while ago, I experimented with a tin of condensed milk and discovered that condensed milk, double cream and thick greek yogurt make easy peasy gelato. That post explains in detail how to make it, and gives many different flavour options. No...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2017 | Puddings / Desserts
It was the U3A AGM yesterday. We offer tea and biscuits usually, but because it was the AGM we upgraded to cakes. I decided to take some cheesecakes in ramekins. I did a strawberry topped one and this salted caramel using a recipe I’ve used before. The strawberry ones...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 9, 2015 | Breakfast, Recipes Using No Power
This lovely Bircher muesli is from Rose Elliot’s book, Vegetarian Cookery, which I’ve had for ever. I use lots of recipes from it and it was one of my standby books when we were both vegetarian. The muesli is wonderfully delicious. Rose recommends having it with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Picked lots and lots of raspberries and loganberries from the canes in the garden this afternoon, they’re doing really well. Lots more to come yet. So, you know what I’m going to say now don’t you! Yes, I made some raspberry ice cream! It thickened up so nicely in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Although I have four extremely large tins of mandarins, I opened a much smaller one yesterday to try mandarin flavour ice cream. I had the second pot of double cream to use, but no more yogort. So I thought I’d try it with just cream to see what the difference was....