Flora Shedden: my favourite ice cream recipes

Some time ago, while at school, I won a cooking competition (the appropriately named Highland Chef). My prize, alongside my first Jamie Oliver cookbook, was an ice cream maker. It was a basic creation that consisted of freezing a round base and then pouring chilled custard on top, but it was a phenomenal bit of kit by my standards. I had never made ice cream before then.  I had watched Mum beat egg yolks with sugar and lemon for what seemed like hours before stirring in cream and freezing.