{"id":13168,"date":"2013-07-05T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13168"},"modified":"2013-07-05T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:52:58","slug":"a-berry-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/07\/a-berry-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A berry good day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six quarts of strawberries, just picked by my neighborhood farmer!<\/p>\n

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I roasted some with a bit of vanilla bean paste. The vanilla revs up the strawberry flavor and the result is a wonderful compote\/syrup. It would take just a bit of pectin to jell this…maybe just a kiwi. Did you know kiwi has pectin and if you add it to strawberries, they jell? Well, it is true, but I wanted more of a syrup which is a good thing as I didn’t have any kiwi!<\/p>\n

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So pretty and now sitting in my refrigerator to be drizzled over yogurt and maybe a Sunday morning waffle.<\/p>\n

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And though it is not of jam or jelly consistency, that did not stop me from drizzling a bit on this morning’s toast with goat cheese.<\/p>\n

So. <\/p>\n

After the roasting, I still had plenty of berries. Some I froze, but some I mixed with some rhubarb and made a variation of Magda\u2019s Rhubarb Ice Cream recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was very intrigued by the technique of making the ice cream without a machine since I don’t have an ice cream machine. Basically, I become the machine…doing the churning and air incorporating by whisking and\/or blending the mix every 30 minutes until it gets to a soft serve consistency. <\/p>\n

I think a key to this working is also to use metal bowl and utensils – all kept very cold.<\/p>\n

That’s what I did.<\/p>\n

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Aaack!! – blurry, but you can kind of sort of see the texture coming together. This is the third “stir”. <\/p>\n

One more and then I left it alone for 2 more hours to harden to regular ice cream consistency.<\/p>\n

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It worked! The texture is perfect. <\/p>\n

This recipe was heavy cream (a lot of fat and not much going for it nutritionally ), fruit and sugar. I want to try the technique with a custard based recipe and see what happens. <\/p>\n

But, no complaints about this version for an occasional treat.<\/p>\n

For my variation, I roasted some rhubarb, strawberries and vanilla bean paste, reduced the sugar from the above linked recipe and I did not do the crumble addition.<\/p>\n

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Even Bob agrees that it was a berry good day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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