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He makes a mean vanilla too.

To make brandied fruit ice cream: cut up dried fruit into bits and soak it in brandy until the fruit has absorbed all the liquid. Spread the bits on a cookie sheet and freeze them ( does the same for strawberry ice cream)

Make the vanilla ice cream according to your preference (his recipe is a little heavier in butterfat than commercial and with as little sugar as possible). Churn the mix, and when it is almost ready, pour the frozen fruit bits into the churn and give it a couple or three more turns, enough to distribute it well in the mix.

We wipe the container down to remove the salt, and put it in our freezer. If we are taking it somewhere we can pack it in ice in a cooler, or dish it up into containers and take those in the cooler.

The best thing though is to make it at the party, especially if there are going to be some middle and high school aged boys. They will fight over getting to churn the mix. It is hilarious.

We gave some of the brandied fruit to some neighbors and their 5 year old son got into it.. he was drunk as a skunk.