subject: Asking For An Old Cornish Clotted Cream Recipe From A Local [print this page] While I was on holiday in Cornwall last year I became addicted to clotted cream and clotted cream ice cream. Clotted cream is one of the loveliest tastes in the world and I now know why the quintessential English cream tea is so popular that it is considered a tourist attraction. There was one clotted cream icecream recipe which was just heavenly and I just had to ask the lady at the serving counter about how it was made.
I was told that it was an old Cornish clotted cream recipe which was the base for the clotted cream ice cream, and to try and find it out, I would have to speak to the owners of the farm where we were having tea. Deciding to try and find out the recipe, I tried to make inroads with the farmers wife by promising that I would not share the recipe with anyone. In the end, even though I did not get the proper Cornish clotted cream recipe, I was given tips and advice on how to make clotted cream at home.
Once you have got the basics right, i.e. you have the perfect clotted cream, then you can use this to make different types of clotted cream ice cream. There are so many different flavours which you can try out, but the most popular ones tend to be the classics such as various types of berries and fruits. Adding fruit to ice cream not only gives you lots of different flavours, it cuts through the richness of the ice cream and makes it a little bit tangier and not as cloyingly sweet.
This is even more so when it comes to ice cream made fro clotted cream as opposed to normal cream. This is because clotted cream is richer and creamier than normal cream and you need something to cut through the creaminess. There are many fruits which are used, such as strawberries, raspberries, mango, blueberries, orange and even lemon curd, which although not a fruit, still has the same effect. Chocolate is also used but somehow this is the one place where chocolate is not the best selling flavour or a particular food type.
The good thing is that clotted cream is very easy to make at home and once you have mastered how to do it, you can use the stuff in other dishes apart from ice cream. If you feel that making clotted cream at home is not your cup of tea, then there are various companies which do sell mass produced clotted cream in the market.
If you decide to buy your clotted cream from a shop rather than making it at home, remember that you really should get the best one that you can afford. This is so that if you decide to make clotted cream ice cream at home, you will get a rich thick creamy taste which should not be too synthetic tasting, and then whatever fruit or flavour you wish to make.
