Recipe - Italian Spumoni

1 One half pt Vanilla ice cream
Rum flavoring to taste
6 Maraschino cherries
1 One half pt Pistachio ice cream
1/3 cup Chopped pistachio nuts
Three fourths cup Whipping cream
1/3 cup Instant cocoa (dry)
1 pack (10 oz) frozen red
raspberries, thawed
1 ds Salt
One half cup Whipping cream
One fourth cup Sifted confectioner's sugar

Here are a few recipes I found in the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook,
all with instructions for preparing without an ice cream maker. Plus a
recipe for Spumoni. These should give you a good idea of the procedure,
which can most likely in any recipe be adjusted for the commercial makers.

Chill 2 quart metal mold in freezer. Stir vanilla ice cream just to soften.
Stir in rum flavoring. Refreeze until workable. Spread quickly in layer
over bottom and sides of mold, brining ice cream all the way to top. (If it
tends to slip, refreeze till workable). Circle cherries around bottom.
Freeze.

Stir pistachio ice cream to soften. Stir in nuts. Refreeze until workable.
Quicikly spread over first layer. Freeze.

Combine Three fourths cup cream and cocoa; whip to paks. Quckly spread over pistachio
layer. Freeze. Drain berries (discard syrup or save for another use).
Sieve. Mix One half cup cream, sugar and dash salt; whip to peaks. Fold in berry
pulp. Pile into mold; smooth top. Cover with foil. Freeze 6 hours. Peel off
foil. Invert on chilled plate. Rub mold with hot towel; lift off mold. Cut
in wedges to serve. Makes 12 to 16 servings.

(my note: for a really fantastic surprise dessert...cover the slices with
the hard chocolate shell that's sold in the supermarket and then refreeze.
On each plate slice each wedge crosswise into a few slices, fan out, and
top with some whipped cream (possibly flavored with rum or amaretto). YUM

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
NAFY67C@prodigy.com (DEBORAH EPSTEIN) on Mar 18, 1997