Make ice cream from violets

What you need:

• Violet flowers
• some powdered sugar
• 500 ml milk
• 1 milk ice cream magic

How to make ice cream with violets

1. First of all, of course, you need the flowers of violets, which bloom in early spring. Remove the purple petals and finely chop them very lightly.
2. Mix the violet petals with the powdered sugar and let the mixture rest in a tightly closed container, preferably overnight. During this time, the sugar removes the delicate fragrance from the violets and the liquid contained in the petals. A Insertion in something liqueur or alcohol is also possible, but the alcoholic mixture does not freeze as well as the sugar mixture.
3. The next day, mix the violet mixture with the milk.
4. Stir in the ice powder as instructed.
5. Put the ice cream mixture in a shallow container and seal it.
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6. Let the violet ice cream freeze in the freezer for a few hours.
7. Incidentally, the ice powder prevents the formation of unwanted ice crystals. That ice cream becomes tender, airy and very creamy.
8. If you do not have fresh violet flowers, you can also buy a small amount of dried violet flowers from the pharmacy. Before using them, however, you have to soak them in a little milk or alcohol and then cut them into small pieces.
9. Make sure that you only use the local violets for making ice cream; the little fragrant Usambara violets that you can buy in nurseries are unsuitable.
10. There are numerous violet oils available for purchase. Before you make ice cream with this fragrance oil, you should definitely check whether the violet oil is also suitable for Food is suitable or whether it is, for example, an artificial oil that is only suitable for fragrancing rooms. In specialist bakeries you will find violet aromas for making ice cream.
11. The ice cream can also be made with the fragrant flowers of lavender. Make sure you only use the purple florets, the herb of the lavender is very spicy and less suitable for making ice cream.