If you like ice cream what is your favorite?
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Comments (8)You can also do it the really old fashioned way -- the same method that has long been used to make sorbet. Just pour the mixture into a baking dish, and set that into your freezer. Also, you will need a heavy glass or metal bowl, an electric hand mixer, and a bowl of ice big enough for the first bowl to sit in. Put the heavy glass or metal bowl and the beater attachments for the hand mixer into the freezer at the same time as the ice cream mix to chill them. When its almost but not quite fully frozen, use a fork to break it up into small lumps about the size of a nickle or a little less. Then put it back into the freezer about 10 minutes to set up a bit again. Now, working as quickly as possible, take the pre-chilled heavy bowl out of the freezer,and set it in a bath of ice cubes in the 2nd larger bowl. Quickly transfer the ice cream mixture into the chilled bowl, and beat it as much as possible with the electric mixer ONLY until the lumps are broken up, and it begins to whip up a bit. Then, back into the freezer for another 15 to 30 minutes, until its not at all "melty" but still a little soft. Repeat the beating/whipping process several times -- the idea is to whip as much air into it to make it creamy and fluffy as possible, without melting it too much at each whipping. The chilled bowl, the ice bath, and the chilled beaters help, but beware that the very act of beating it creates friction between the bowl and beaters, which makes heat, so this process is a balancing act between beating in air and melting the ice cream. Done right, which isn't at all hard to do with just a little practice, this method does work, albeit it will never be quite as fluffy as commercial ice creams you are used to, which not only incorporate a large volume of air into the mix using specialized equipment, but which also generally use gums and stabilizers which prevents the product from melting and turning liquid as fast as a pure, cream and milk only product will. Good luck....See MoreWhat is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Comments (15)I like the grocery store brand of Triple Vanilla. I can eat it plain or doctor it up with different toppings or fruit preserves. At my local ice cream shop my favorite is Black Raspberry Marble. My favorite out of town ice cream is Marianne's Spumoni. It's a white spumoni, not that multi-colored bright green,pink and brown neopolitan style stuff. I like lemon chiffon ice cream when I can find it. Also peach but it has to be made from peaches. Most peach ice cream has nectarine puree in it....See MoreWhat's your favorite kind of ice cream?
Comments (78)Amylou, I do hope you'll try "pink chocolate" for yourself. I had some "Ruby" brand bars last spring and they were delicious. Slightly fruity but definitely chocolate, is how the taste struck me. Perennialfan, I had rolled ice cream once at a local shop. It was fun watching it be made but for me it's a novelty thing, not worth going out of my way for. For your other question, ice cream bars are good for convenience, either portable or portion-control -- but given a choice I'd take ice cream in a bowl....See MoreWhat kind of "stuff" do you like in ice cream?
Comments (31)We didn't have formal desserts when I was a kid other than fruit. My father sometimes had a cookie. There was always ice cream in the house however, which usually came out mid-afternoon. My father loved ice cream. :) So do I. I usually don't keep it around. If it isn't, I'll eat a veggie popsicle. :) Because I'll easily eat too much ice cream if given the opportunity. So here's my picky list: I used to be a lumps hater, but when we were kids, my father gave us cones and lumps don't lick well. I still don't like hard lumps. Not those big frozen hard chocolate pieces. Not frozen hard nuts. Not icy rock hard strawberry ice cubes. As an adult, eating out of a custard dish or similar, I do like some kinds of lumps if they're slightly different than the ice cream in texture, but not rock hard, remaining long after the ice cream has melted in one's mouth. Like non-ice-cubey berries or bits of fleshy fruit, like peaches. Chocolate flake-chips rather than lumps. Nuts that have softened a little in the custard. Even some crunchy mix-ins. But I don't have to have any of these. I've always liked a ribbon of syrup or fudge swirled in the ice cream if it's not oversweet. Most of the time caramel is too sweet. A little goes a long way. OTOH, I'm not big on sundaes. Too goopy. I don't like drippy soft ice cream. I want it cold! I like berries or fruit with plain frozen yoghurt, where the sweetness is welcome, but if I'm turning to syrups it means the ice cream must be pretty darned bland. Exception: If you need to put on weight fast, there's fudge ripple ice cream with Kahlua. :) Straight out of the bottle, not syrup. It makes the ice cream melt faster but it's really delicious. And I do like different flavors together. Always have, harkening back to the two scoops treat at the drugstore when I was a kid....See More
8 months ago- 8 months ago
Ice cream is my most favorite food and I could probably write essay after essay about it.
I am another coffee flavor lover along with chocolate and peanut butter.
Tillamook is very good, I agree. My real preferred way to eat it is in a cone from an ice cream shop. My 2 favorites are:
Coffee Chip (it's strong coffee, with big dark chocolate chips) from Halo Farm which is in Princeton and Hamilton NJ.. We moved from there 7 years ago ...sigh
PeanutButter Overload from September Farm, Honey Brook Pa. This is to die for ice cream and fortunately it's about 40 minutes from my house so I only get there a few times a year.This is actually what it looks like. Whoever I've brought there agrees that it is the best ever.
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8 months ago
8 months agoFour years ago, the Bengals played (and lost) in the Super Bowl. One of our whippy dips (The Cone) made an orange and black ice cream called Who Dey. It was.........interesting. We have pretty good ice cream from various places around here. It's hard to pick just one as a favorite.
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