I have read dozens of ice cream recipe books cover to cover, and spent many, many hours online researching recipes and ice cream techniques and suggestions. I have enjoyed all of them, gotten lots of ideas for recipes to try, and learned from all of them. The following are a couple of books I highly […]
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All ice creams contain sugar. Some recipes call for honey, corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk, brown sugar, or other sweeteners. We use white granulated sugar in most of our recipes. Honey can add a nice taste to some recipes. A small amount of corn syrup can help lower freezing temperature without making the ice cream
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Many commercial ice creams include a number of additives to act as stabilizers to keep water from migrating and ice crystals from growing, thickeners to adjust the texture and make the ice cream more scoopable, additives to keep air bubbles from collapsing and to adjust how hard the ice cream is at various temperatures, additives
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Ice Cream Base Mixes: An ice cream base mix is a pre-mixed combination of milk, cream, sugar, and other ingredients that is common to all ice cream recipes. Commercial ice cream manufacturers each have their own ice cream base mix that they use to make all of their flavors of ice cream. They pour in
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Ice cream is a frozen foam made of milk fat, air, sugar, and flavoring. Normally when liquids freeze, they become solid, hard, and unappetizing like an ice cube. To prevent that from happening, we want to keep the ice cream as a frozen foam, not a frozen liquid. We do that by adding air (by
