Savannah Makes

View Original

Peach Ice Cream

Savannah Near

Happy Labor Day weekend! The official bookend of summer is upon us and in case you find yourself by a peach stand during this long weekend, needing to get your last summer fix, make this! I find that there are two camps when it comes to peach ice cream. Camp one: wants basically vanilla with peach chucks in it. Camp two: wants it to taste/smell/look like a peach, just colder. Since I’m all about taking your favorite things from each recipe and blending together, this felt like a fun one to experiment with. Here’s what I found, making a peach simple syrup is KEY! It contributes sweetness, color and translates the essence of peach very well into the milk and cream mixture. Don’t worry, it’s not as complex as it sounds—I’m going to walk you through step by step so you too can know the wonders of peach ice cream!

Ingredients:

Peach Ice Cream

- 2 1/2 cups heavy cream

-2 cups whole milk

-2 1/2 tsp salt

-3/4 cup sugar

-2 cups fresh peaches, cubed (about 5 peaches)

-1/2 cup of peach simple syrup

-2 tsp vanilla extract

Peach Simple Syrup:

-skins of 5 yellow peaches

-1 1/3 cup water

-1 1/3 cup sugar

Method:

Peach Simple Syrup

  1. Peel the skin off 5 peaches. Place the inside of the peaches into a bowl (we will need for the ice cream) and place the skins into a saucepan.

  2. Fill saucepan with water until peaches are covered. Add same amount of sugar, as you did water. For this exercise, my measurement was 1 1/3 cup for both. Stir together until dissolved.

  3. Bring peach skins to a boil for 5 minutes. Reduce to a simmer and let cook for 45 minutes.

  4. Strain peach skins and place peach simple syrup in a container to cool completely.

Peach Ice Cream

  1. Place the freezer bowl of your ice cream maker in the freezer at 0 degrees for 24 hours

  2. In a large bowl combine, milk, sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved.

  3. Add in cream, vanilla, and simple syrup and mix to combine. Cover and let chill for 2 hours.

  4. Take freezer bowl out of freezer, and add cream mix, make according to your machines settings.

  5. Add in peach chunks with 5 minutes to go.