Using half-and-half or heavy cream will give you a thicker ice cream. Using milk with a lower fat percent (2%, 1%, or skim milk) will make your ice cream not quite as thick and creamy. I chose whole milk, because that’s what we had handy, and because I like the consistency of the ice cream. The type of milk you use will make a difference in the texture of your ice cream. If you’re starting with frozen berries, just thaw them before you get started. I made this blackberry ice cream with frozen blackberries. (Because 6 quarts of ice cream is a lot!!) Homemade Blackberry Ice Cream Recipe We make blackberry cobblers and blackberry ice cream all summer long… and still have plenty of blackberries left to freeze for later! We usually make this homemade ice cream in our 6-quart White Mountain ice cream maker… But I’ve adapted the recipe for a 1.5-quart countertop Cuisinart ice cream maker. These blackberry bushes are very prolific, and give us gallons of huge, juicy blackberries every summer. (Actually, they are right in the middle of the yard, and we need to do something to keep them a little more contained!) They are on a different part of our farm, and stand separate from the garden. One place we don’t have to worry as much about weeds is with our blackberry bushes. It is a constant battle to keep the weeds from taking over our plants! And while it is great for garden plants, it’s also great for weeds! We have such a big problem with Jimson weed, pigweed, and plain old grass growing in our garden. Second, we use a small plow attached to a tractor to work up the compacted ground, loosen it up, and mix in the composted manure.Ĭomposted cow manure is a fantastic fertilizer. First, we have been adding lots of composted cow manure to the soil, both as a nutrient source and as a way to break up the compacted soil. It’s also hard for water to get down to the roots – most of the water just runs off the surface, instead of seeping down into the soil.įor our garden, we have been fighting compaction in two ways. When soil is compacted, it is hard for plants to put down roots – the ground is packed too tightly for the roots to grow. Top soil should be somewhat “fluffy.” But when you walk on it, or a tractor drives over it, or horses exercise on it, it gets packed down and compressed. No air or water can get through, and it is much harder to shovel. But when you walk on it, or drive your car over it, it packs down and compresses. When it first snows, it lays light and fluffy on the ground. It got completely overtaken by weeds! Our sweet corn, luckily, was a different story, and we had a bumper crop last summer!
BLACK BERRY ICE CREAM PATCH
This was supposed to be our green bean patch last year. One unfortunate side effect of that is that we have become very good at growing weeds, as well as garden plants. We have been trying for years to reverse that long-term compaction, and get the soil loose so plants can grow. When we bought the farm, horses hadn’t used that area in a while, but the ground was still packed down really tightly. The land where our garden is now used to be an outdoor horse arena. And every summer we fight the good fight against the weeds. Use fresh or frozen blackberries in this homemade ice cream recipe to enjoy the taste of summer all year long!Įvery summer we put out a large garden.
BLACK BERRY ICE CREAM FULL
The flavor is sweet at first bite, then smooth and creamy and full of smile inducing yumminess.This ice cream is so easy to make. So if you’re using fresh berries, find your favorite jam recipe, proceed to make jam, then come back and follow these easy instructions. So in order to make this simple but deliciously addicting ice cream, you’re going to need about 1/2 cup of jam. If you’re like me you troll the jam aisle at the store and have way too many jars of different flavored jams in your refrigerator. This particular ice cream uses jam or preserves, but you could absolutely use fresh blackberries, cook them with some sugar, put them through a sieve to remove the seeds and let it cool, hence making your own jam. :) I make ice cream a lot and am always experimenting with different flavors. Today is National Ice Cream Day, but honestly I don’t need a made-up holiday to eat ice cream.
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