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Ice Cream, Take 1
I started with this: 2 eggs (used Eggbeaters to avoid raw egg problems) 1 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups whipping cream 2 cups half-and-half 1/2 cup 1% milk 2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla The original...
View ArticleIce Cream, Take 2 (Vanilla Chai)
I started with my previous recipe, and modified it to be in line with this one. I dropped the vanilla and changed the dairy products to one quart of half-and-half as per the second recipe — I’d wanted...
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Roasted Banana Ice Cream
I got this recipe from the excellent The Perfect Scoop, about which more later, so I won’t reproduce the recipe verbatim. But you roast your bananas with brown sugar and butter and then you blend with...
View ArticleTwo Ice Cream Books
I got two books on making ice cream. I’m very pleased with one; I am not so pleased with the other. Perfect Scoop is really good. David Lebovitz was a pastry chef at Chez Panisse and he cares a lot...
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Oatmeal Praline
This is oatmeal praline, which is pretty easy to make if you pay close attention to the sugar. Came out way better than the roasted bananas. Tangentially, the problem there was that I tossed the...
View ArticleOatmeal Praline Finale
If you look, the Internet will tell you that it’s OK to use Eggbeaters in ice cream recipes. As is so often the case, the Internet lies. I had been using Eggbeaters but I swapped to real eggs for David...
View ArticleAztec Chocolate
So this is your basic chocolate ice cream recipe, Philadelphia-style (no eggs), but you also add a bit of brandy and some cinnamon and a bunch of chile powder. The recipe calls for either ancho or...
View ArticleChocolate Raspberry Ice Cream
I took David Lebovitz’s custard-based chocolate ice cream and cut the cream down by half a cup to 1.5 cups and the chocolate down to 4 ounces from 5 ounces. The first change was in the interests of...
View ArticleJeni’s At Home
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home is a pretty interesting contrast to my current ice cream bible, the David Lebovitz book. They’re both really good ice cream books. The latter is a slow foodie’s...
View ArticlePecans, Beer, Chocolate, Coffee, Chipotle, Not All At Once
This is the story of how I made a lot of ice cream by mistake, no really. Start out with Lisa Fain’s cinnamon-chipotle pecans. I got this from her cookbook, which is a pretty good cookbook although I...
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