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Pear, ginger and lemon ice-cream

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South Africa is a great country. One of the many reasons for this is the abundance of public holidays bestowed upon its people, my favourite of which is National Braai day. For those of you who do not avidly follow the Triple Motion website and so missed out on the ‘Triple motion reaches the Southern hemisphere’ entry, a braai is a national pastime here that involves making a lekker (nice) fire and slapping a few hunks of meat on it. In the UK we would call it a BBQ, but they seem to occur so infrequently, the term has fallen out of common usage.

Anyways, I digress. So the 24th of October is National Braai day (although you may have seen it advertised as Heritage day too) and I thought there was no better way to celebrate than with a batch of ice-cream. I debated for a good long while about what flavour… maybe Wors (sausage), or perhaps biltong (dried meat). Intriguing though the prospect of meaty ice cream was, I thought best not inflict this on the wider populous just yet, so instead I thought I would go for something to fit the balmy public holiday weather. Hence pear, ginger and lemon was born.

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Vanilla Bean Ice Cream in the new White Mountain Junior!

This year for my birthday I received a wonderfully big surprise in a very small package. Turns out that Big D, my dad, and Thibault conspired to find the world’s smallest White Mountain Freezer and sent it for my birthday. After the usual debacle with Parcel Farce, I received the newest edition to our White Mountain arsenal the day after my birthday. The picture below should give it some scale. This is the White Mountain Junior inside a six-quart freezer.

the Junior inside a six-quart freezer

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Passion fruit icecream

 

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With autumn approaching I’ve been kicking back with my feet up on the 1/2 gallon freezer (log fire, pipe, slippers, smoking jacket – you know the scene) and reflecting on a long successful summer of cranking. Looking back it seems that I’ve been so busy that I’ve written up precious few batches into the blog, so here’s an attempt to correct the situation.

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Blueberry Ice Cream at Julie’s Birthday Party

Blueberries are a regular theme on Triple Motion. This is the story of our latest blueberry experiment.

When Julie’s 30th birthday-party was approaching, we were trying to decide what kind of ice cream to make. We ventured out to the shops.

PETER: These locally-grown blueberries are great. These aren’t the native blaeberries, but they’re still tasty and I have been adding them to my daily-pancakes more days than not in the past month or so.

BIG D: Julie did write a song about picking blueberries while she was in Tennesee.

PETER: Decision made!

We scooped a stack of punnets of fresh Scottish Blueberries.

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Watch The Outer Hebridean Ice Cream Adventure

Our first ice-cream movie – The Outer Hebridean Ice Cream Adventure is now online. Watch it in High Definition.

Read Big D’s story of the trip here.

More Ice Cream on the Fringe – this Thursday!

Roll up! Roll up!

More free ice cream is coming your way. At 5:15pm this Thursday 27 August (in celebration of my mother’s birthday!) we will be serving up another massive and delicious batch of ice cream at Dee Custance’s Lemon Custard Comedy Show at the White Horse. Those who missed the last two weeks have no excuse now (did I mention that it’s FREE?). Ben Kempas came all the way from Munich last week to eat the ice cream and take these pictures!

Peter cranking on the Royal Mile (photo by Ben Kempas)

Last week we made a batch of vanilla that was almost not really vanilla. When I was rapidly preparing the mix I forgot the precious drops of vanilla extract and Thibault and I cycled in the rain to the Royal Mile only realising the mistake a few yards from the venue. Thibault quickly embarked on a wild-goose-chase (in the rain!), navigating Edinburgh’s road construction to find the only vanilla within a mile-radius. By the time he got back the ice cream was very near frozen and the comedians were getting anxious.

But we managed to stir in the flavour and delighted the audience with the Triple Motion goodness. It was again, a great success.

So don’t miss it this Thursday!

Peter prepares to crank on the Royal Mile as Gregor watches (photo by Ben Kempas)

Chocolate Ice Cream at Cocopsychosis on Saturday

We are also cranking up some frozen chocolatey goodness for our friends at the Forest Cafe this Saturday.

Come along to Cocopsychosis for a psychedelic dance party with live ice cream, chocolate from The Chocolate Tree, and visuals by Accidental Media (that’s me). Starts at 8pm. details here

Free Fringe Ice Cream this Friday

Following on last year’s über-successful collaboration between Triple Motion and Lemon Custard Comedy Club, we are back at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to serve up delicious handmade ice cream during Dee’s comedy show. 

Please come along to the White Horse on the Royal Mile this Friday 14 August. The show hosted by Dee Custance starts at 5:15pm. Guaranteed laughs and frozen creamy goodness for all.

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Here are some samples from last year’s fun:

Franzi’s first homemade icecream (Whisky and honey)

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 I currently have the great pleasure of a houseguest from Hannover. Franzi is an old friend of Shiv (see Saffron icecream in Primrose Hill park) and is staying for a few weeks to enjoy to fabulous weather an sophisticated culture of the north of england (ahemm).

Then when Shiv also came to visit and I found myself with 2 lovely people in my house it was inevitable that the excitement would spill over into making icecream. Continue reading →

Mumbai Ice Cream Flavours

My friend Florian just sent this picture from India. It lists a fascinating array of flavours available in a Mumbai ice cream parlour.

New Kulfi Centre - Ice Cream Flavours from Mumbai