The big news of the week was that I splashed out and bought an ice cream maker! Not the £300 one that we used at the Ashburton cookery school but a more modest model priced at just £39.95 from John Lewis. It was with much excitement that I unwrapped my 1.1 litre Moulinex Ice Cream Maker - I studied the instruction book and assembled the parts and I perused the reccomended recipes that also came with it. Dissapointment hit me when I realised that the bowl had to be left in the freezer for 12 hours before I could knock up a "Mr Whippy" cone! Anyway, 12 hours or so later I made my first batch of ice cream - a very tasty raspberry and yoghurt number! Dead easy this, I thought so set about making a Gin & Tonic sorbet ready for Saturday when Sue and Jen & Marie got back from Portugual. With the syrup on the simmer, I got distracted by the golf on TV and when I returned to the kitchen, the goat dog Poppy had decided to devour not only 4 of my prized tupperware lids but also the paddle from my newly purchased ice cream maker! I did manage to retrieve most of the paddle from her mouth, after she did five laps of the garden with me in hot pursuit - so washed and sterilised, I attached what was left of the paddle to the ice cream maker, poured in my gin & tonic sorbet liquid and waited! Under normal circumstances the correct consistency should be achieved in 20 - 30 minutes - my sorbet took 1 hour! Either the paddle has lost some of its efficiency due to its mauling by the goat dog or I put too much gin in the mixture - when I return from foreign parts I'm going to try again but with a new paddle!
Until we return!
The goat dog
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