Current mood:	okay
Entry tags:	fic:writing, food, food:ice cream experiments

I got some more writing done yesterday!
Old Word Count: 5623
New Word Count: 5831
New Words: 208

Also, ice cream experiments from last week. I've had a lot of apples to use up (because they keep well, they get eaten last) so here are some more ventures with stewed apples.

Experiment #39: Apple Ice-Cream with evaporated milk
Recipe:
* 2 apples
* 100ml water
* 5 T Xylitol
* 2 T Erythritol
* 1 t cinnamon
* a few ice cubes
* 4 T Splenda granular
* 375ml (1 can) low-fat evaporated milk
Stew the apples with the water and the xylitol and erythritol. Leave to cool. Puree. Cool down a bit more with the ice cubes. Add cinnamon and Splenda. Add evaporated milk. Mix and chill a bit more. Make in ice-cream machine.
Result: Didn't freeze properly, was frothy fluff (too much sugar-alcohol, obviously). Also there was too much mixture for the ice cream machine and it sort of overflowed. Otherwise it was okay, I suppose.
Lessons: (a) 7 T is too much combined Xylitol and Erythritol (b) check the volume of the mixture more carefully before adding it to the ice cream machine.

Experiment #40: Apple Ice-Cream with whipped milk
Recipe:
* 2 apples
* 5 T Xylitol
* 100ml water
* 1 t cinnamon
Stew the apples in the water, Xylitol. Leave to cool. Add cinnamon and puree.
* 125ml skim milk powder
* 125ml water
Whip the milk and water for ten minutes.
* 3 T Splenda granular
Add apple mix and Splenda to the whipped milk mix. Stir. Spoon into the ice-cream maker and churn.
Result: Good! Not as good as the apricot one, though, because the taste was very weak; apples don't have as strong a taste as apricots.
Lessons: (a) whipped milk does work for other things too (b) maybe try apple-vanilla next time, or apple-maple.

Further on the Apricot Ice Cream; I ate the second half of it that I'd frozen separately, and it was still delicious. It was actually scoopable, probably due to the Xanthan gum, which I now realize I forgot to put into the apple ice cream above, which probably means that the stuff now in the freezer will be rock-hard.