BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present

Subject: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Helen
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:49 PM

Hi all,

I got the best Christmas present ever - an ice cream making machine. So, knowing what a great recipe resource Mudcat is (that is what this forum was invented for, wasn't it, for sharing the best recipes for session food) I am hoping that you all have some yummy ice cream, gelato etc recipes that I can try out.

My one and only experiment so far has been a strawberries and cream recipe. Yummo!

I'm interested in outlandish recipes as well, e.g. avocado ice cream, or pumpkin ice cream - as long as it tastes good, of course. I used to have a recipe for one called mock strawberry. I know it had banana and watermelon in it but I can't remember if there was one other fruit as well.

Hints and tips on successful ice cream making would be really good too.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 12:03 AM

Clean bowl:

Six egg whites - Whip until almost dry (stiff peak)((set aside))
On pint (16 oz) whipping cream - Whip until stiff

Blend toegether - one cup sugar, one frozen can (12 Oz) of concentrated orange-juice, 1/4 cup honey, and the yolks from the 6 eggs (if paranoid of your local ranch supply and samanolia fears - QUICKLY poach yolks in in steaming water 2 minutes. DO NOT COOK nor Thicken.

Add one tablespoon REAL Vanilla extract.

Add one quart (32 oz)of half and half "cream" to blend

Add and blend whipped eggs and whipped cream

Pour into mixer.

Produces 3 quarts of premium sorbeit/sherbert

Orange concentrate may be sugstituted with Berry, or Bannana, or Passion Fruit for a different taste.

Have Fun!!!! Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Helen
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 02:40 AM

Thanks Gargoyle. I'll try it out.

Helen

P.S. Bah Humbug, and all that ;->

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: open mike
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 03:35 AM

just pour in egg nog! and fresh grated nut meg..
do you have one of those ice cream makers that
the cylinder goes in the freezer and you crank
it by hand? or is it electric? one of the biggest
makers is here: http://www.donvier.com/donvier/
and their recipe page is: http://www.donvier.com/donvier/recipes/index.html
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also you can put in anything that you might make a smoothie
from...bananas, yogurt, strawberry jam,and orange juice,,,yum yum.

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Sooz
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:10 AM

Mix together one tin condensed milk and a 10oz carton single cream. Add a few drops of vanilla extract and churn. Simple, but delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Sooz
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:12 AM

Or try sorbet. Puree and sweeten some fruit (blackcurrants are good and theres no need to top and tail) and add a couple of egg whites. Churn away.

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: mg
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:50 AM

if you are watching your carbs or sugars, stevia makes a delicious ice cream with no added calories..I am sure it would work for sherbert etc. too. Some people love it, like me, and some find it has a bitter aftertaste so you just have to experiment. I use the powdered white kind. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 02:14 PM

Use the cream recipe but leave out the vanilla and put in a good big dollop of maple syrup... yummy!

Soak some raisins or sultanas in rum and chop them into it, for a bit of extra kick.

I made some with rose water once... got a wonderful creamy 'Turkish Delight' flavoured ice.... very good for hot summer days and not so sticky as the original sweet.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: mack/misophist
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:03 PM

Sa'ad, who runs the corner store eats ice cream at least once a day, sometimes twice. He keeps a very good selection. My normal recipe is to ask what's good this week. It always works.

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: freightdawg
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:11 PM

If you have a recipe for regular vanilla make up a batch of that.

Get a bag of peppermint candies (or other favorite candies) and crush them up.

About half way through the freezing process CAREFULLY add the candies to the mix. This was my father's favorite. If you add them too soon the candies melt. Adding them at the right time leaves little crunchies in the cream - wonderful stuff and it makes your breath smell good.

Also, I've heard of green chile ice cream, but would not have the foggiest idea as to how to make it.

Hope your ice cream maker is the old fashioned hand-crank style instead of the new fangled electric type. You get a much better product if you crank for an hour and end up with blisters all over your hands.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Helen
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:10 AM

freightdawg,

No, it runs on electrickery, not elbow grease. I know I would appreciate the ice cream much more if I had to expend some energy on making it, but electrickery is easier.

Thanks for the ideas, everyone. I'll try them out.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 10:47 AM

Hi Helen,

I've been offline for a week and missed this thread, but here's my best advice/recipe.

In the famous cornbread thread, I explained a little about making ice cream in an electric freezer. here

Then last July I finally found the recipe I promised Spaw:

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Vanilla Ice Cream (No Cooking)

4 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla
1/2 pint whipping cream
2 cans condensed milk (Eagle Brand)
~ 1 1/2 quarts dairy milk

As best I remember, I added plenty of vanilla, omitted the whipping cream (never had any, but it makes a nice texture when you use it), bananas or peaches or strawberries. I think the Eagle Brand Milk is the key. Crushed ice in the electric mixer seems to make it freeze fast. Also, it seems to help to put the container with contents in the refrigerator to cool down before actually freezing it.

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The Eagle Brand milk is a sweetened, condensed milk in a can. I'm not sure if you can get it in Oz. You can probably google to find the ingredients in it. You can add any fruit or flavoring -- just be careful not to add too much additional sugar as it will lower the freezing point too much and you'll end up with slush. The all-time favorite is banana.

Of course, some Arnott's biscuits (cookies) go well with homemade ice cream!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Helen was my Secret Santa last year and sent me some delicious Arnott's biscuits in a decorative tin which is on the shelf by my computer as we speak!)

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Helen
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 02:51 PM

Thanks Mary! Glad you liked them. I can't see the fuss about Tim-Tams but I like the ordinary Arnott's biscuits and I love the truck shaped tins with the parrot logo - a kind of Aussie family tradition.

The ice cream maker I have has an enclosed canister which I have to put in the freezer overnight before making the ice cream. No messy ice & salt like the last one I had. It was the icy salty water which killed the motor, in fact. Poorly designed so that the water flowed straight down into the motor. Not bad for a $20 bargain at a garage (yard) sale, though.
I'll try out your recipe because the fact of having to fuss around making egg custard is slowing me down.

I want to try to cut down on the sugar as much as possible and rely on the fruit for sweetness. Mary Garvey, I haven't tried stevia but I have heard about it. I have discovered a medical marvel called xylitol, which is a sugar made from cranberries or birch bark etc, It is just like sugar in taste and looks. I might add a bit of that if I want to sweeten the ice cream a bit.

(Briefly, xylitol blocks the action of bacteria by plugging into the receptors of the bacteria where they would normally plug into the cells of your gut, or other sites of infection. We found out about it in an article in the New Scientist. I especially recommend it for tummy-bug infections - affectionately known as "the wog" here in Oz. It stopped major gastric attacks within hours in both my hubby and I on two different occasions while all our friends and workmates were suffering for days. The best stuff I know of. A thread in itself, really.)

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Susan A-R
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 10:26 PM

Puree some nice ripe mangos (the more the merrier) with a pint of cream (the heavy, thick kind) add a little sugar, brown sugar or maple syrup (you don't need much) then go for it. I also wonder how yogurt works in those machines. I take yogurt (the kind with cream on top) and maple syrup and mix them up and run them through mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Ice-cream recipes pls - Xmas present
From: Helen
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 02:52 PM

Susan A-R,

My machine's recipe book includes a couple of recipes for yoghurt ice cream. My recipe for strawberry ice cream includes gelatin to help it fluff up so I would probably try the mango idea (mango ice cream is one of my favourite flavours) and use gelatin the next time if it didn't work well the first time.

I tried out the vanilla recipe from the machine book yesterday, based on a simple egg custard. It said to add half a cup of caster/castor sugar (superfine sugar) but I put a tablespoon of honey instead. I used a honey from Tasmania, Oz's island state, called Leatherwood Honey which has a very strong, distinctive, un-honeylike aroma. Remind me not to cook with that honey again. :-) The ice cream is Leatherwood icecream now!

The vanilla is a bit hard to taste.   It's yummy, though, and I added choc chips for fun. I whipped it up to get lots of air bubbles in it which I read somewhere helps to make the ice cream freeze quickly. It is probably why I had so much trouble with the strawberry ice cream because I didn't whip it - just followed the recipe.

An aside: (When we were in southern Tassie in January 2003 we went on an "airwalk" which is a network of very high suspension bridges and you walk around in the treetops. The leatherwood trees are among the tallest trees in that forest and they have little white blossoms, a lot like peach blossoms to look at. I never knew until then that leatherwood honey came from trees and not just small flowering plants.)

Helen