[Sca-cooks] OOP Ice Cream recipe needed

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Nick Sasso wrote:

> Don't have on right at hand, but use your favorite Crème Englaise  
> recipe and
> put into the freezer to churn.  It is more of the custard style  
> rather than
> the Philadelphia style, which is not so eggy.
>
> niccolo difrancesco

Somewhere I have a book of Victorian English ice cream recipes (a  
brief search yesterday did not unearth it, but I STR it's published  
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art). It tends to consist of a series  
of three recipes, depending on the desired opulence level, for each  
flavor of ice cream. They're designated, I guess, as "Rich Vanilla  
Ice Cream", "Ordinary Vanilla Ice Cream", and "Cheap Vanilla Ice  
Cream", or some such. In general, the "Rich" versions of the recipes  
were pretty darned stupendous, while the cheap versions were pretty  
good support for arguments that English food is an insult to the  
palate (if I'm not mistaken, they involve cooking milk with flour and  
sugar to make a sweetened white sauce, kinda like Chocolate Gravy  
without the chocolate, which you then freeze).

But the rich version is largely as Fra Niccolo describes it: cream,  
eggs, sugar and flavorings cooked into a thin custard and then  
frozen. A standard formula for creme anglaise would be a quart of  
cream, a dozen yolks, maybe a half to three-quarters of a cup of  
sugar, and a vanilla bean scalded in with the cream (or a teaspoon or  
two of vanilla extract added). For freezing purposes, you might want  
to use only six or eight yolks.

I'll continue to look for that book...

Adamantius

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> Greetings the list
>
> Am not looking for a period recipe, just the best darn
> Vanilla Ice Cream recipe you guys can share.  I may
> also be looking for the best darn ANY FLAVOR ice cream
> recipe.  A friend received an Ice cream maker as a
> gift.  She wants to try it out this weekend, and I am
> her recipe source.  Since I dont have one, I am hoping
> your wealth of knowledge will come through as always.
> Sorry, dont know the brand she got.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
> Gwen Cat
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