New ice cream maker

[Pumkinpie]

Just picked up a ice cream maker from lidl.
I thought I might have a go making ice cream or sorbets.
Looks like I might have a good crop of soft fruits to experiment with.
I thought I might have a go at some of the recipes in July' s Homefarmer.
Has anybody tried the rhubarb and custard ice cream yet.
It sounds yummy.

[Pumkinpie]

Too impatient. Read instructions and need to prefreeze container. The only thing the maker does is stir the mixture. I wish I had looked at it more closely before I bought it. Serves me right.
I resorted to the old fashioned way , mixing it by hand then putting it in the freezer and giving it stir every 20 mins or so to stop large ice crystals forming.

[sda]

I didn't look into it before I bought one years ago. I wanted to make healthier ice-cream for the little ones, with less sugar and fat, etc., only to find that it needed a certain amount of the very ingredients I wanted to reduce, to produce the right consistency as the blade turned and scraped the mixture off the frozen insert! This might be of interest:
http://learni.st/users/dulcie.wilcox/bo ... -a-machine