your most interesting home-made ice-cream recipe, please?

[eeky]

I looove ice-cream. Have made at home a couple of times, but lost the will to live after taking out of freezer and whisking every bloody half hour - and still ending up with a crystalline mess. Dh, bless him, arrived home with an ice-cream maker from Aldi this morning. Bargain at 20 quid. We couldn't afford the ones with built in freezer,so reckoned best to go cheap and try it out.
So, what are your best recipes/flavours that cannot be bought? I am considering:
Really good vanilla made with beans
Coffee
Rhubarb (lots in freezer and garden)
Blackcurrant (ditto)
Real raspberry ripple
Apple crumble
Cinnamon
Sorbets of any summer fruit that that is in garden or going cheap...

This is a bit addictive once you start thinking about it!
We have lots of eggs to make real custard for a base courtesy of our chickens enjoying the summer.

Let me know your tried and tested, please, and anything to be aware of with cheap makers?

Ta

I do a rhubarb and sloe gin sorbet - really simple and refreshing, and the alcohol means you don't get big ice crystals. We don't have a proper ice cream maker though, it's a big shallow tub and a lot if whisking!

My mum used to do a killer brown bread icecream. Apparently it's a traditional English flavour. There are lots of recipes online. Ginger icecream is good too, with chunks of preserved ginger in it. And what about coffee icecream?

Oops, sorry, getting carried away, you've already said coffee! I had a lovely Eton mess icecream the other day, with strawberries and crushed up meringues.

Ginger? I drain a jar of stem ginger in syrup, reserving the syrup, then finely slice as much of the drained ginger as necessary to cover the bottom of a loaf tin which I've lined with cling film. I chop the remaining ginger pieces fairly small, and stir them into vanilla ice cream mixture with some of the syrup (to taste). Pour the ice cream mix into the loaf tin and freeze. When you turn it out, once frozen, it looks good and tastes delicious.

I make a basic ice cream mix and add zest and juice of a lime with some grated chocolate. Lovely :)

Try the Ben & Jerry's book - some lovely flavours in there as well as ideas for sundaes etc.

Raspberry ripple is delicious but you need to let it set in a rectangular box so you can make it ripple. I often use supermarket soup pots for storing home made ice cream. My children like adding caramel sauce to vanilla & swirling it. They also like chocolate with chunks of marshmallow in it. Vanilla with chocolate chips, marshmallow & broken digestives. Coffee made with very strong filter coffee 8oz cream 8oz black coffee 5oz sugar 6oz milk. I don't use eggs in most of my recipes. Chocolate is 5oz v gd dark chocolate 85% cocoa, 8oz double cream, 8oz milk & 5oz sugar. Vanilla 8oz double cream, 5oz brown sugar (more caramelly taste) 8oz milk infused with half a vanilla pod. I sometimes put egg yolks in if they are left over from another recipe but never crack an egg to add them, if that makes sense. I use semi-skimmed milk as that is what we have. Sorry I hope this makes sense, it's all rather shorthand.

A basic vanilla ice cream mix with crushed maltesers is one of our favourites

I brought an ice cream maker last week and the first one I made was the rhubarb ice cream from how to eat. Delicious especially with honemade shortbread biscuits. I reserved the juice that came from the rhubarb and reduced down into a syrup to go over the ice cream.

Chestnut puree stirred into a basic ice-cream is lovely
. Praline - nuts toasted then covered with sugar syrup , left to set then crushed.

I make a lazy ice cream with double cream and condensed milk, whip up double cream, add condensed milk whip to stiff no need to churn.
Last week added mint essence and dark choc - ds is a big mint choc chip fan.
Added some home made honeycomb to dd's - easier than you think.
Nigel Slater's marmalade ice cream is delicious.
Passion fruit - remove the seeds
Honey and nutmeg - wow this one is better than I'd ever expected.
Chocolate is tricky - only ever use 85% and no cocoa - it gives a powdery cheap tasting result.
Brown bread ice cream is a bit of a faff but it's worth it.
Cookie Dough too.
Strawberry is always a bit hard to get right so we don't bother.
Lemon curd ripple.

Oh my word, thank you all, I love the sound of all the above! Brown bread and ginger I hadn't thought of and sound great. Thanks esp for the I will try our first batch and let you all know - going for stewed rhubarb in vanilla, so will use the recipe from how to eat, my most used recipe book I think!
Thanks esp eastpoint for the details of proportions, v helpful

eeky - look www.davidlebovitz.com/category/recipes/ice-creams-and-sorbets/

Years ago I tasted a Marmalade ice cream made by Orkney Ice Cream at a trdade fair. It was beautiful!

I've had the Orkney Marmalade Ice cream - I think Nigel Slater's version with dark choc is better though!

Just made a ginger and nutmeg ice cream - can't wait till it freezes.