Ice Cream Day

17th July 2022

As well as July being officially hailed as Ice Cream Month, the 17th July has also been officially dubbed Ice Cream Day. Originally it was celebrated in the USA, however now the trend has caught on around the world and you can find people celebrating it everywhere by enjoying this tasty dessert.

National Ice Cream Day was actually officially decreed a special date by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 to help boost the ice cream industry in America. Ice Cream Day always falls on the 3rd Sunday of July and is celebrated by people tucking into their favourite frozen desserts. 

 To celebrate this delectable day (and month!) we have four recipes for you to try at home with an ice cream machine. If you haven’t already got an ice cream maker, scroll down to find out more about our IM540 ice cream machine.

Blueberry

400g blueberries, plus more for serving

50g caster sugar

1 Juice and zest of 1 lemon

720ml double cream

400ml sweetened condensed milk

Cherry

60g frozen cherries (stoned & lightly pureed)

415ml sweetened condensed milk

295ml double cream

6 tbsp icing sugar

Pistachio

100g pistachio (unsalted & shelled)

150ml milk

100g golden caster sugar

300ml double cream

300ml ready-made custard 

½ tsp almond extract

Lemon

400ml double cream

150ml  whole milk

160g sugar

225ml lemon juice

4 tbsp lemon zest

Fun Fact

Ice cream is one of the world’s oldest desserts. It was invented in its first form in the 7th century in China under the ruling of King Tang of Shang. King Tang would send a group of ice-men up into the mountains where they would take fermented cow, goat and buffalo milk mixed with flour and camphor and freeze it into a kind of frozen yoghurt/ice cream (yum..)

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