The big Costco-box strawberries were good but had been in there since Thursday. Cooking them would definitely extend their shelf life.
So I blenderized them with a quarter cup sugar and about 2/3 a teaspoon of King Arthur Instant Clearjel, ie very processed (corn?) starch for, y’know, sour cherry pies and the like. Nuked it twelve minutes and poured it over sliced mangoes with leftover sauce for tomorrow.
And that was going to be the end of that.
Until he looked at the ice cream maker.
Can you put corn anything in ice cream? I asked, knowing that of course you can if you want to, it just sounded so strange.
Why don’t we try it?
So: 3/4 c. strawberry sauce, cream to fill it to two cups, two more tablespoons of sugar after a taste test and into the machine it went.
A few minutes later while doing a puzzle.
Him: I think we should check it to see if it’s done.
Me: It just started!
Him: I think we should check.
Me: If we check every three minutes we’ll run out before it’s done!
Him with a grin: Is this a problem?
Turns out the machine wasn’t turning so it’s a good thing we did check. Fixed that. We let it finish its business in peace.
And the verdict is, next time I think I’ll go half sauce/half cream because that was super rich. The sweetness level was not too much, just right.
It was very very good. Ten stars.