More Creaming the Ice
Oct. 10th, 2008 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenMore ice-cream making tonight!
I also went to a supermarket liquor store at lunchtime to get some brandy, not for drinking, but to use as the heat/cold conductor between the fixed bowl and the removable bowl.
Experiment #3: using the Optifast coffee milkshake mix; also brandy for the conduction
Recipe: used 3 serves and 600ml of water, nothing else extra
Result: success! Creamy, cold, mildly coffee tasting, just a touch of sweetness. Froze 2/3 of it in two separate containers, ate the remaining 1/3 of it.
Lessons: (a) brandy works better than salt+water as a cold-conductor; (b) 600ml is a better quantity than 400ml - it doesn't freeze to the sides so much (c) it's nice to eat the ice-cream out of the bowl, so long as I remember to use a plastic spoon (they don't want metal damaging the surface of the bowl)
Experiment #4: trying for peppermint sorbet, made from peppermint tea
Recipe: 500ml peppermint tea, 4 tsp sweetener
Result: semi-fail; I ended up with granita rather than sorbet. It doesn't taste bad, but it wasn't what I was aiming for.
Lesson: a purely water-based mixture doesn't work; one needs to have something that binds it together somehow.
One option would be pureed fruit (a certain number of recipes use that), but I want to see if I can make something without fruit, since fruit isn't low-calorie enough (I'm only allowed two pieces of fruit a day). Maybe a weak gelatine mixture might work.
I also went to a supermarket liquor store at lunchtime to get some brandy, not for drinking, but to use as the heat/cold conductor between the fixed bowl and the removable bowl.
Experiment #3: using the Optifast coffee milkshake mix; also brandy for the conduction
Recipe: used 3 serves and 600ml of water, nothing else extra
Result: success! Creamy, cold, mildly coffee tasting, just a touch of sweetness. Froze 2/3 of it in two separate containers, ate the remaining 1/3 of it.
Lessons: (a) brandy works better than salt+water as a cold-conductor; (b) 600ml is a better quantity than 400ml - it doesn't freeze to the sides so much (c) it's nice to eat the ice-cream out of the bowl, so long as I remember to use a plastic spoon (they don't want metal damaging the surface of the bowl)
Experiment #4: trying for peppermint sorbet, made from peppermint tea
Recipe: 500ml peppermint tea, 4 tsp sweetener
Result: semi-fail; I ended up with granita rather than sorbet. It doesn't taste bad, but it wasn't what I was aiming for.
Lesson: a purely water-based mixture doesn't work; one needs to have something that binds it together somehow.
One option would be pureed fruit (a certain number of recipes use that), but I want to see if I can make something without fruit, since fruit isn't low-calorie enough (I'm only allowed two pieces of fruit a day). Maybe a weak gelatine mixture might work.
