Nuts add a wonderful crunch and taste to many ice cream recipes. However, raw nuts can get soft and soggy when immersed in liquid or frozen ingredients for a long time. Nuts in ice cream taste best when they are chopped, buttered, salted, and roasted ahead of time. You can buy some nuts, like peanuts, cashews, […]
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I find new ice cream recipe ideas almost every day. Whenever we go on trips we always look up the best rated local ice cream shops, and try a number of their flavors. We make notes of what we liked or didn’t, and which flavors we want to try at home. We were recently on
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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 of my ice cream recipes call for 2 Whole Pasteurized Eggs. Here is the rational for pasteurizing the eggs and the instructions for how to pasteurize them. Due to concerns about Salmonella and Bird Flu the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture says: “No one should eat foods containing raw eggs. This includes “health food” milk
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Watch this video of how to zest lemons for your ice cream. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I prefer to use a lemon zester like this Microplane version. A grater (like a cheese grater) is usually too big so you get enough white of the lemon that it starts tasting bitter.
Just getting started making ice cream? The main thing you need is an ice cream machine. Ice Cream Machine Any kind of ice cream machine will work. See Tip “Ice Cream Machines” for our personal recommendations. Other Supplies If you have a well stocked kitchen you likely already have most of the other kitchen supplies
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Some people have egg allergies. You can replace the whole pasteurized eggs in our Ice Cream Base Mix #1 with liquid lecithin, which is derived from soy beans. We did that for a few years, but liquid lecithin is very sticky (like honey or tar) and can be difficult to mix in well. There is
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
