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Litchi Ice Cream

Ingredients

1½ cups canned seedless litchis, drained & diced

2 cups heavy cream

1 cup milk

¾ cup sugar

2 egg yolks, beaten

¼ cup fresh lemon juice

Method

1. Combine the cream, milk and sugar in a saucepan or double boiler; heat until warm and the sugar is completely dissolved. Add 1 cup of the cream mixture to the yolks while whisking lightly. Gradually pour the egg mixture back into the cream mixture while continuing to whisk lightly.

2. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the back of your spoon is thinly coated, about 8 minutes. Do not allow boiling or the ice cream custard mixture will curdle.

3. Add the litchi and lemon juice and let it cool in the refrigerator overnight.

4. Freeze in an electric or manual ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. If you don't have an ice cream maker you can put the ice cream custard in a bowl and put it in your freezer until frozen.

Summertime Litchi Iced Tea

Ingredients

4 quarts water

10 litchi tea bags

1/2 cup ginger juice

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

1/4 cup fresh lime juice

1/2 cup sugar

Lemon and lime slices, for garnish

Method

Bring the water to a boil in a large pot, and remove from the heat. Add the tea bags, ginger, lemon, and limejuices and sugar. Allow the tea to steep for 10 minutes, remove the tea bags and cool the tea. Stir to be sure that the sugar is dissolved, and place in a large pitcher. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.

Just before serving, add the vodka to the tea and serve in tall glasses filled with ice. Garnish with lemon and or lime slices.

Litchi Soufflé

Ingredients

General:

1 small onion

For Custard:

2 cups milk

5 tbsp powdered sugar

For Gelatin:

2½ tbsp. Gelatin

1 tbsp. Sugar

For Cream:

8 oz whipping cream

6 tbsp custard powder

¾ tbsp vanilla essence

1-cup syrup from litchi can

2-tsp. Lime juice

4 tbsp. powdered sugar

Method

1. Mix milk and sugar in a vessel and heat. Dissolve custard powder in little cold milk and add to the hot milk. Stir till thick. Remove from heat and cool. Mix vanilla essence.

2. Mix together gelatin and sugar. Add Litchi syrup. Double boil the mixture till gelatin is dissolved. Mix limejuice and beat on ice with an eggbeater till fluffy like cream.

3. Mix whipped cream and powdered sugar. Beat on ice cubes till cream is stiff but flowing. Reserve some cream for decoration.

4. Reserve a few whole Litchis for decoration. Cut the remaining Litchis into tiny bits.

5. Place a big vessel on plenty of ice cubes. Mix in cooled custard, beaten gelatin, cream and Litchi bits. Stir often, scrapping the sides till the soufflé is mixed properly.

6. Pour the prepared soufflé into a bowl. Set in the refrigerator till set. Decorate with Litchi pieces and cream before serving.