Xmas pud icecream: difficult?

[openerofjars]

Okay, so I buggered up the Xmas pud on Sunday but I have this crazy theory that I can rescue it into Xmas pud icecream. I found a recipe but, if you have any experience of these things, is it a difficult thing to do, technically speaking?

And if not, am I a silly person for wanting to do it with a whole pudding (which will need 1l custard and 1l whipped cream).

And I don't have an icecream maker.

And it'll be with lactose free milk and cream(dairy, not soya: I'm not that mad).

Fuck it, I should just eat the pudding, right? I just don't want to waste it, especially after toddler DS helped to stir it.

(It gets worse: I should add that we actually made 2 puddings, one do which we are already going to have to eat this week.)

Damn.

How did you bugger it up? Can't it be saved?

The pud is fine but I overfilled the crappy plastic tubs and the pudding expanded and forced the lids off.

I was going to keep one for Xmas 2012 but it's had the air at it now so I don't think it'll keep now. Hence eating one this week and doing icecream.

I quite like the idea of icecream for Xmas day.

I made Christmas pud ice cream one year. It was yum.

If you stir a good slug of brandy into the custard, it won't freeze too solidly because the alcohol won't freeze.

Doing it without an icecream machine isn't a problem. Put it in a shallow (ideally metal) tub in the freezer, then every 20 min or so, scrape the frozen bits into the middle so it keeps a lighter texture. This will make it a bit grainy, but that's ok. If you want it really smooth (which, with lumps of pud in, it's not going to be) I think you need to whisk it.

I'm hungry now.

That's the diet down the wazoo, then!

Thanks, will have a go tonight & report back. Must go and buy an egg beater.

You can do a cheats version - get some 'soft scoop' ice cream let it soften slightly and mix your crumbled christmas pud into it and pop back into the freezer and bingo!

Sounds good, but DS is on a lactose free diet at the mo, so it's lactose free milk for the custard and lactose free cream for the, well, cream.

It worked beautifully! I have now made 2 batches, it is a doddle and we will be having some instead of the traditional pud on Xmas day. Even better than pud: no tedious steaming, no faffing with brandy butter. Genius.

Thanks for all the help!