Plum And Walnut Crisp With Ginger Ice Cream Recipes

PLUM AND WALNUT CRISP WITH GINGER ICE CREAM

Steps:

• For topping:
• Mix first 7 ingredients in large bowl. Add butter and rub in with fingertips until small moist clumps form. Cover and refrigerate 20 minutes. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep refrigerated.)
• Microwave ice cream in 5-second intervals just until slightly softened. Mix ice cream and ginger in medium bowl to blend. Cover and freeze. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep frozen.)
• For fruit:
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Toss plums, sugar, cornstarch, and vanilla in bowl. Let stand until sugar dissolves, tossing occasionally, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer plum mixture to 11x7-inch glass baking dish. Sprinkle topping over. Bake until topping is dark golden brown and fruit is bubbling, about 40 minutes. Transfer crisp to rack and cool slightly, about 30 minutes.
• Scoop warm crisp into shallow bowls. Top each with scoop of ice cream.

PLUM CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x8-inch baking dish.
• Spread the plums out into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar. In a bowl, mix together 3/4 cup white sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine with beaten egg and spoon the mixture over the plums. Drizzle batter with melted butter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the topping is brown, about 40 minutes.

WALNUT AND GINGER ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Put the yolks and sugar in a heavy saucepan or casserole. Beat with a whisk until pale yellow.
• In another saucepan, combine the milk and cream and bring just to the simmer.
• Meanwhile, put the ginger into the container of a food processor or electric blender. Blend thoroughly. There should be about three tablespoons. Set aside.
• Add about one-half cup of the hot milk and cream to the egg yolk mixture, beating rapidly with a whisk. Add the remaining hot liquid, stirring rapidly. Heat slowly, stirring and scraping all around the bottom with a wooden spoon. Add the ginger and stir. Bring the mixture almost, but not quite, to the boil, stirring constantly. The correct temperature is 180 degrees.
• Quickly pour and scrape the mixture into a cold mixing bowl. This will prevent the mixture from further cooking.
• Let it stand until cool and add the nuts and vanilla.
• Pour the mixture into the container of an electric or hand-cranked ice cream freezer. Freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

PLUM OATMEAL CRISP

Steps:

• In a bowl stir together the plums, the lemon juice, and the granulated sugar and spread the mixture evenly in the bottom of an buttered 8-inch-square pan. In another bowl blend the brown sugar, the flour, the oats, the salt, the cinnamon, the ginger, the walnuts, and the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture evenly over the plum mixture and bake the dessert in the middle of a preheated 375°F. oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until it is crisp. (For a crisper topping, after baking the crisp broil it under a preheated broiler for 2 minutes.) Serve the crisp warm with the vanilla ice cream.

CREAM SHERRY-FLAVORED PLUM CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix plums, brown sugar, tapioca, sherry, nutmeg, and allspice together in a 9x13-inch baking pan. Let stand, stirring occasionally, until tapioca has softened, about 20 minutes.
• Combine flour and sugar in a bowl. Cut margarine into small pieces and add to the flour mixture; cut in with a pastry blender or two forks until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in cereal and walnuts. Squeeze mixture into large lumps and coarsely crumble over the plum mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until fruit is bubbling and topping is golden brown, about 45 minutes.