ice cream maker
 

Mrs. Dallas got me one of these for my birthday.

http://www.villaware.com/products_it...ProductID=2523

:yum:

So far I've made 2 recipes that came with it, peanut butter ice cream, and apple sorbet (based on an apple juice mix).

They were both yummy, but the peanut butter one was very runny and didn't really harden even on the setting that's supposed to produce harder ice cream. I made room in the upstairs freezer for the freezer bowl (the downstairs one isn't quite as cold) and the results of the apple juice recipe were much better.

Any more hints & tips? Any recipes?

1.) Rent an old gas station and set up shop.
2.) Get a groovy looking pint container and call yourselves something gemutlich like Mr. & Mrs. Dallas's Cosmic Cream
3.) Sell your company to Unilever for squintillions of dollars.

It worked for Ben and Jerry and Breyers. :D

As far as recipes go, I'm not much help, but I think Guar gum and carageenan are really important if you don't want to use so much of that expensive cream.

;)

BTW, it is true, I am jealous.

Or just bring it to Forks this weekend.

2 cups half-and-half
1 cup heavy/whipping cream
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean, split & scraped

Combine in saucepan, attach thermometer, heat to 170 degrees F stirring occasionally and take off the burner. Allow to cool slightly, remove the husk of the vanilla bean. Pour into a container, cover, and refridgerate overnight.

Pour mixture into ice cream maker and turn on, until the volume has increased by 50-75%. Just eye it. Spoon back into a container and refridgerate for 1 hour before eating.

Best ice cream I've ever had.

You can also swap 2 tbsp of sugar for 2 tbsp of fruit preserves (not jam or jelly).

Don't leave it with your wife's aunt who promises to drop it off sometime.

OK - first I have to chastise you for not using a real hand-crank ice cream maker. The one that takes the ice and salt and you have to get someone to sit on it while you crank so it will sit still. It tastes a LOT better that way.

But anyway - this is my favorite recipe lately.
CAUTION: It uses raw eggs. Use fresh ones. (available at Grifftopia for $2 a doz)

5 eggs
2 (12 fl. oz) cans evaporated milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1-1/2 cups white sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 (3.5 oz) package instant vanilla pudding mix
4 cups milk

In a large bowl, beat together eggs, evaporated milk, cream, condensed milk, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer. Beat in pudding mix until smooth. Pour into frezer canister of ice cream maker and add enough milk to bring mixture to the fill line. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.

bon appetit

Then take the vanilla bean and put it in the sugar cannister. Seriously.

Recipes that call for eggs are actually custards by definition, not ice creams.

Yep Pete has the one nearest the one my Mom made years ago. She cooked hers in a double boiler. And damn If I can find anything that looks right. No instant vanilla pudding mix. didn't have that then, maybe. I do remember the canned milk. The old bucket has been rotted for years, so I made a new one from pipe. Bet it's heavy enough not to have to set on it. Aw the peaches in it.

Brains, approximately how long? the recipe book that came with mine has similar recipes but it says all of them will complete freezing in 20-25 minutes. Maybe I haven't been waiting long enough.

Chastise all you want Pete this was in specific reply to a comment I made that I'd love to use the ancient ice cream maker more but the ice & salt were too much of a pain... :D

Overnight for the refridgeration of the ingredients

30 minutes or so in the ice cream maker, or until desired soft-serve-style consistency is reached.

1 hour at least in the freezer.


When I first got my ice cream maker I used the included recipe booklet, and the resulting product was trash.

Trust me on this one =)

oh dear.. one of my favorite recipes.. no i don't know how to use one your new-fangled ice cream makers :) but..
mix in
1 cup amaretto (burned off.. ie. put it in a pan let it catch fire 'til it stops burning an simmers like a syrup.. unless you want the alcohol in there.. it'll just make the base of cream and sugar break down faster)
4 marchino cherries (diced)
howver much chocolate shavings you want.. I would recomend.. well damn... depends on how much you are making.. 65%$ of the amareto (sp?)
the kids will love it...


failing that! go get some real vanilla beans! seed them and simmer them in the cream! add a little baileys to the mix and go to town.. yeah I like alcohol.. my biggest downfall in life and cooking.. hmmm

use double boiler...save the pain of scorched cream!

A shot of vodka or some other alcohol actually results in smaller ice crystals, and a smoother ice cream.