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How do I make a Turkish Delight Syrup
I made turkish delight ice cream but the bits of commercial sugar coated turkish delight I folded through were rock hard when frozen and a possible problem for unsuspecting guests. So, I was wanting ...
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How do I add guar gum when making ice cream?
My ice cream is great tasting but it gets very hard over time and has a lot of ice crystals. I realize that I have to freeze it faster to reduce the size of the ice crystals but it was suggested to me ...
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What accounts for the softer texture and sharper flavor of Italian ice creams?
I know that Italian ice cream (home made, most of all) doesn't use any stabilizers or gum ingredients.
How can they be made soft, and agreeable to taste?
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Is there a magic ingredient that keeps ice-cream soft?
I have bought a electric ice-cream churner, I have tried so many different flavours, different recipes, used alcohols.
Have read previous questions and a don't believe that leaving ice-cream out to ...
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What's the best way to defrost ice-cream/sorbet quickly?
I made some sorbet at the weekend, and realised just when we were due to serve that I had forgot to take it out of the freezer to soften, and so it was rock hard.
What is the best way to bring it to ...
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How to make homemade ice cream with a chocolate swirl
My favorite ice cream flavor has swirls of gooey chocolate running through vanilla ice cream.
What do I have to do to reproduce this effect with homemade ice cream?
I tried adding chocolate sauce ...
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Coloring colored ice-cream
I would like to buy strawberry ice-cream for my friend, and most of the strawberry-flavored ice-cream is pink in color. However, I am thinking of serving the ice-cream green color instead. Is there ...
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Ice pop recipe using egg yolks by two different ways
A few days ago i started reading about popsicles recipes. Searching this out i found out about two sort of recipes using almost identical ingredients to make a creamy popsicle.
The first recipes ...
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Why is my icecream bitter?
I am new to making homemade ice cream. I just started to feel confident with plain vanilla, so it was time for the next step - adding fruit.
The custard recipe says it can be turned into fruit ice ...
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How to clean ice from ice cream maker bowl without thawing?
I made a sorbet using a bad recipe (too watery) and I had a 3 mm thick layer of solid ice form around the walls of the ice cream maker bowl. The plastic spatula can't break it and the user's manual ...
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How can I prevent my ice cream bucket from drying out?
I live in New Mexico which is a dry climate. During the winter I store my ice cream bucket in the garage. While ice cream buckets that are not in use are prone to drying out, storing it in the garage ...
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Baileys ice cream stabilizer
I'm planning on making Baileys ice cream from the recipe given in Larousse Gastronomique, which calls for 1 tsp of stabilizer. Ice cream stabilizers are briefly listed in the preceding paragraph as ...
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Preventing Crystalised Dairy Ice Cream [duplicate]
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Is there a magic ingredient that keeps ice-cream soft?
I'm making real dairy ice cream at home, without any sort of machine (which I have no intention of buying). The ...
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Ice cream technique - what should I mix into what?
I have a homemade non-dairy ice cream recipe that involves a snow of egg whites and sugars, whip, and the egg yolks. At this point, the recipe says "mix together slowly with yolks". In which order ...
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Softening ice cream with guar gum
I have several ice cream recipes that I'm generally happy with (texture is good and all). However, I'd like to make a less sweet, less rich version of some of them.
How much guar gum would I expect ...
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How to make ice cream without a machine?
I recently made a poor-man's ice cream by making an egg custard and freezing it in the freezer in a metal bowl, stiring about every half hour. I was expecting it to freeze it 2 hours, but three hours ...
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Ice cream - how to achieve store bought consistency with a home ice cream maker [duplicate]
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How can I make my Ice Cream “creamier”
I own an ice cream maker. It has a container that I keep in the freezer at all times. I've followed many recipes to ...
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Does Arabic gum help keep frozen yogurt soft?
I'm trying to make frozen yogurt manually (no machine), but I would like it to be soft-scoop. My first batches froze hard (tasty but hard), regardless of whether I stirred them every half-hour or not. ...
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Why is Ice Cream used in Hot Buttered Rum?
I'm looking at recipes for Hot Buttered Rum, as I have plenty of rum and it's cold out. Several of the recipes call for vanilla ice cream. Is that traditional? What is it for? Wouldn't it just cool ...
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What to do with too-bitter sorbet?
I made cherry sorbet according to a recipe, only to find that the cherries I'd bought have a strongly bitter taste to them (not unusual for cherries in my experience). Now the sorbet tastes strongly ...
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What is the difference between ice cream, gelato, and sorbet?
What is the difference between ice cream, gelato, and sorbet? They look different, but are they made differently?
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How to know when to stop churning ice cream?
I've got a simple Cuisinart home churn, the kind that uses a frozen bowl rather than a compressor. On a couple of occasions, I'm pretty sure I've overchurned the mix, because it seems to leave a ...
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Is it possible to have chocolate chunks in ice cream that aren't waxy?
My wife loves mint / chocolate chip ice cream. It hasn't been my favorite because of how waxy the cocoa butter in the chocolate becomes when it is cold.
Is there a type of chocolate that won't become ...
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How can I make Turkish dondurma?
Turkish ice cream is called dondurma. Besides milk and sugar it also contains:
Salep- a flour made of ground orchids and
Mastic- a resin that produces a gum.
Because of these ingredients dondurma has ...
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Tips for patriotic vanilla ice cream
My wife will be making home-made vanilla ice cream with our ice cream machine tomorrow. To celebrate the holiday, we wanted to make it red, white, and blue ice cream: essentially a white base with red ...
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Coconut Milk Ice Cream - Getting Volume?
I've made ice cream with full-fat coconut milk twice in my KitchenAid ice cream maker with OK results.
I've followed the instructions and have run the machine for the time suggested (about 20 ...
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Tips for Creating a Creamy and Smooth Sorbet
Recently I purchased and ice cream maker and have been making lots of sorbets with our surplus frozen fruit. Often I will follow a recipe however sometimes not: sometimes the sorbets are icy after ...
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What kind of containers for homemade ice cream?
In the past, I've usually stored homemade ice creams and sorbets in reusable/disposable plastic containers (e.g. Gladware), but I've busted more than a couple of these when trying to scoop hard-frozen ...
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Purpose of condensed milk in mango ice cream?
Purchased condensed milk (so expensive!) to make mango ice cream as per this recipe.
After mixing up everything, the mixture seemed a bit softer in texture as compared to my Mom's way of simply mixing ...
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How do I avoid hot fudge turning my ice cream into a soupy mess?
My pregnant wife's cravings have recently turned towards sweets, and this week it is banana splits, with a very specific formula: chocolate ice cream, banana, whipped cream, and hot fudge.
It's not ...
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How can I thin out my ice cream mixture?
I'm trying to make a McFlurry/Blizzard-like dessert in my blender, but the ice cream isn't coming out at the consistency I'd like. I tried adding milk, but that didn't seem to do much. The ice cream ...
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How much brine do I need to freeze icecream?
Suppose that I am making ice-cream the old fashioned way, by keeping a bowl of ice cream base in a bigger bowl of table salt solution cooled to below freezing.
How much brine do I need per 100 g of ...
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How do I steep mint for mint ice cream?
My garden is brimming over with chocolate mint, and I want to make mint chocolate ice cream with it. The general plan is to use cocoa, as opposed to melting chocolate, and steep the chocolate mint in ...
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Substitute for egg yolk in ice-cream (Egg Allergy)
I have a few questions regarding egg yolk in ice-cream.
I would love to try making homemde ice-cream but a lot of recipes I see have egg yolk. Is there a substitute that I could use or is it ...
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How can i keep ice cream without a freezer
I would like to keep ice cream overnight, but I only have a refrigerator. When I've tried to store it in the refrigerator it looks like soup the next morning. Is there a way to store ice cream using ...
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Is it possible to create salty ice cream?
I have heard that in Japan people use to have eat some kind of salty ice cream. Is it true? If it is true, does anyone know how to prepare it?
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How long do I need to freeze the freezer bowl when making the second batch of ice cream?
I have made one batch of ice cream, and now I need to make another. I have rinsed out the freezer bowl, and when I dried it I noticed that the water had frozen to a thin film of ice. So it is ...
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How can I make my Ice Cream “creamier”
My ice cream doesn't feel creamy enough. I got the recipe from Good Eats, and I can't tell if it's just the recipe or maybe that I'm just not getting my "batter" cold enough before I try to make it ...
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How can I flambé ice cream?
For a dessert I recently made, I intended to flame, or burn some alcohol on a quinel of ice cream. Unfortunately, it would not light. I've searched the web a bit since and have come to think it was to ...
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Ice cream problems
I have a new ice cream machine, and I have been having some difficulties creating decent ice cream.
The latest recipe I have tried is:
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Clementine ice cream
I made this clementine cake a while back, and very much appreciated the fact that it uses the entire fruit. I found a good deal on clementines today, and was thinking of trying to do something similar ...
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need flavors for trio of ice cream toppings tweeked [closed]
I am just not feeling creative and have been asked to provide dessert for a large party, 30ish, for tomorrow, New Years Eve. Sheesh.
Plain old vanilla and 3 toppings at the table to play with. Should ...
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Beating eggs & sugar when making gelato
I have attempted to make coffee flavoured gelato. I have run into a problems specifically when the beaten egg yolk/sugar mixture is heated with the cream/milk mixture - until "it thickens enough to ...
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keeping ice cream fresh for 12 hours while transporting
Is it possible to keep it fresh during a long distance travel by train? Normal styrofoam boxes won't work I guess, what about thermos flasks?
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What happens if you freeze a soft serve of ice cream?
If I buy a soft serve of ice cream (a single serving in a cone or tub) and put it in my home freezer, will it retain its shape and texture? What will happen to it?
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How to make smooth ice cream flavored with fresh fruit?
What are the key techniques to create a smooth ice cream that's flavored with fresh fruit? How do I prepare the fruit, and when is the best time to add it to the ice cream?
In the past, I've had ...
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How to add fresh fruit chunks to ice cream?
What are the key techniques when adding chunks of fresh fruit to homemade ice cream? How do I prepare the fruit, and when is the best time to add it to the ice cream? I don't want the fruit to be a ...
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No-melt chocolate coating on ice cream bars
I just discovered the fascinating world of tempering chocolate. I've read about it before, but I never tried it until recently.
So, being the adventurous fellow that I am, I tried making my own ...
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Is there a special Wasabi paste/powder I should use when I'm making Wasabi ice-cream?
A friend of mine once made Wasabi Ice-cream. I remember she was saying she had used some special 'Wasabi Powder' Unfortunately I can't reach her, and I wanna try to make this Wasabi Ice-cream at ...
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How much overrun do I get with a compressorless home ice cream machine?
I started making my own ice cream this year. While the French type works quite well, I've been having trouble with American and Gelato types.
I don't have an ice cream machine. I freeze small ...
