Had purchased a mission fig, goat milk ice cream before and wanted to try to make it.  I had some figs from my trees that I dried and thought they would hold together better.  Turned out well and here is the recipe:

2 cups goats milk
1 cup cream
2 eggs
3/4 sugar
1 cup dried figs, minced
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
pinch of salt
fresh grated nutmeg to taste (between 1/8 and 1/4 teaspoon)

Beat eggs add sugar, goats milk, figs, salt and nutmeg, heat until thickens slightly stirring regularly.  You could temper the eggs but I was lazy.  Cool, add cream and extracts then chill.  Follow directions on your ice cream maker and enjoy.

  Jon L

This sounds delish!  I just saved this recipe for use at a later time!  It would work with cows milk, right?

Thanks!

Suzi

  If you use cows milk you might want to change the ratio of milk to cream but it should work without doing that.  Experiment, you'll have two batches to enjoy.

  Jon L

I sell goat cheese fig gilato at my restaurant

And it is very good

Jon
Thinking about your recipe your milk fat is way over 15% after that you have to watch it very closely since the milk fat can coat the inside of your pallet like butter while the milk can crystallize. Corn syrup cuts down on this happening With out increasing your brix too much. Try replacing 1/4 cup of sugar with 1/4 cup light corn syrup if you come across this problem it also help keep your glacé soft enough to scoop in a standard freezer.

We have an annual family home made ice cream throw down!! 

Nana and her old cranker ice cream maker she got on Ebay because she had memories, and her restaurant owner son with his modern easy freeze thingy.  Mine always wins because everyone including the little kids put in all that work, and there's the removal and licking of the paddle for those that cranked.... 

There was that one year that we were all swimming and not watching little Mikey, who after getting his paddle lick (not lickin), decided to go in for more while it was resting.  He got a lot of salt in that ice cream!  Memorable!

I'll have to try fig ice cream, but what is the ratio of whole milk/whipping cream to goats milk/cream?  Not familiar with goats milk.

Suzi

  From my understanding, goats milk is 8% milk fat and cows milk is 4%.  It's good to know about that 15% limit but one way around it is add a quarter cup amaretto.  More than half a cup can keep it from freezing.

  Jon L

OK, so more cream.  Less milk!  Got it!

Suzi

New "Honey Fig Cream" gelato available from Ocean Spray!! (Roba Dolce)

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