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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Tuesday 17 July 2012

Rhubarb Kulfi

Serves 6
250ml evaporated milk
250ml condensed milk
250ml double cream
4 cardamom pods, crushed slightly
1.5cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely sliced
150g roasted rhubarb, strained

Pour the evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream into a pan and whist together until well combined: add the cardamom pods and ginger.  Bring to a bare simmer over a low heat and stir for 5 minutes.  Remove from the heat and leave to cool and infuse for at least 2 hours.  Strain the mixture into a bowl: discard the ginger and cardamom.
Blitz the rhubarb in a food processor or with a stick blender, or pass it through a fine-meshed plastic sieve, to make a very fine pulp.  Whisk the rhubarb into the infused cream until very well combined and ladle into dariole mould or ramekin dishes.  Frezze for at least 4 hours or overnight.
To make the kulfi easier to unmould, briefly dip each mould into a bowl of very hot water before turning out into a bowl.

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