Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  2             pounds  fresh ginger
  2              parts  sugar -- to 1 part juice
  2              parts  buttermilk -- to 1 part syrup

Preparation:

Make a ginger syrup by juicing 2 pounds fresh ginger in a carrot juicer. Add 2 parts sugar to one part juice, cook until sugar is dissolved. Boil to 220F on a candy thermometer. Set aside to cool. This syrup will keep for months, and can be mixed with soda water for ginger beer, used to glaze shrimp, etc. Combine 1 part cooled syrup with 2 parts buttermilk. Chill, then freeze in ice cream machine.

Nutritional Information:

2373 Calories (kcal); 11g Total Fat; (3% calories from fat); 32g Protein; 560g Carbohydrate; 17mg Cholesterol; 636mg Sodium