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Summary: "EXOTIC EASY RECIPES"
Review: "XCELLENT EXOTIC RECIPES", FROM AVACODO WITH JALAPENO PEPPERS ICE CREAM, CORN ICE CREAM, LAVENDER WITH THE PETALS ICE CREAM,GREEN TEA,EARL GREY,IRISH CREAM TO CLASSIC VANILLA. ALL ARE EASY TO MAKE!! I PURCHASED OTHER ICE CREAM COOKBOOKS, THIS ONE IS THE BEST!!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After being promised over 500 recipes I had expected a book that really covered the field for all kinds of ice cream and frozen desserts. Not so. The book does indeed give quite a few recipes, but unfortunately they are fairly repetitious. Each recipe is followed by a fairly obvious list of additions you might make, which accounts for all those 500. Add some chopped nuts? Voila! It counts as a new recipe. There is no mention in the book of using Italian meringue as an addition, which greatly lightens ice creams, and no mention of using condensed or evaporated milk as a base for ice cream. The failure to describe using whipped cream or egg white in making sherbets is a serious omission. If you will read carefully through THE JOY OF COOKING and some of the other standard general cookbooks you will get basic ideas for making good ice cream and sherbet that are completely missing here. Too bad.
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Summary: Ice Cream at its simplest - and best!
Review: Although this book has off-the-wall ice creams (like Red Bean, Pine Nut & Prune), Granitas (Beet! ), Sorbet (Kumquat? makes me pucker just thinking about it!), it also has traditional flavors in an easy to follow format with lots of variations for each recipe. There're also sauces and toppings, shakes & sodas. There are even 3 recipes for cones. I love this book - we borrowed it from the library, then had to get our own copy.
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Summary: Ice Cream at its simplest - and best!
Review: Although this book has off-the-wall ice creams (like Red Bean, Pine Nut & Prune), Granitas (Beet! ), Sorbet (Kumquat? makes me pucker just thinking about it!), it also has traditional flavors in an easy to follow format with lots of variations for each recipe. There're also sauces and toppings, shakes & sodas. There are even 3 recipes for cones. I love this book - we borrowed it from the library, then had to get our own copy.
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Summary: I Scream for The Ultimate Ice Cream Book!
Review: An ice-cream maker is an excellent tool to have in your kitchen. You can make such weird ice cream as black pepper vanilla ice cream, peach frozen yogurt, or even spinach sorbet. However, as neat as these choices sound and as entertaining they may be, "weird" just doesn't do for ice cream if the ice cream is not flavorful.
Here's where The Ultimate Ice Cream Book is more than helpful. From the simple recipes for ice cream cones to the explanations how ice cream should be made, what is Philadelphia style ice cream, and how to keep your eggs from clouding for regular ice cream, the book is a must if you have an ice cream maker. It provides hundreds of recipes with a lot of flavor and imagination. One of my favorite parts of the book is that each recipes has variations, so if you are concerned about certain ingredients because of a diet, allergies, or just personal choice, it is more than easy to still make excellent ice cream while avoiding what you don't like. Almost every recipe is accompanied by the egg-less Philadelphia style ice cream (which are faster to make), and every recipe has basic explanations what to do, so you don't have to keep flipping through the book while you're cooking.
Every single recipe I have used from this book yielded delicious ice cream. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: I Scream for The Ultimate Ice Cream Book!
Review: An ice-cream maker is an excellent tool to have in your kitchen. You can make such weird ice cream as black pepper vanilla ice cream, peach frozen yogurt, or even spinach sorbet. However, as neat as these choices sound and as entertaining they may be, "weird" just doesn't do for ice cream if the ice cream is not flavorful.
Here's where The Ultimate Ice Cream Book is more than helpful. From the simple recipes for ice cream cones to the explanations how ice cream should be made, what is Philadelphia style ice cream, and how to keep your eggs from clouding for regular ice cream, the book is a must if you have an ice cream maker. It provides hundreds of recipes with a lot of flavor and imagination. One of my favorite parts of the book is that each recipes has variations, so if you are concerned about certain ingredients because of a diet, allergies, or just personal choice, it is more than easy to still make excellent ice cream while avoiding what you don't like. Almost every recipe is accompanied by the egg-less Philadelphia style ice cream (which are faster to make), and every recipe has basic explanations what to do, so you don't have to keep flipping through the book while you're cooking.
Every single recipe I have used from this book yielded delicious ice cream. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Boring & bland!
Review: Dan of West Hollywood has written a great & accurate review of this cookbook. I feel even more negatively than he about this book. I bought it because I was looking for an ice cream "Bible" cookbook. Maybe if you're a suburban soccer mom with a large team's worth of mouths to feed this would be a great book. But if you've been making ice cream for several yrs. & want to be challenged to greater heights of ice cream making; or you have a bit more sophisticated palette, I wouldn't buy this book. Why are there no chocolate ice cream recipes asking for real chocolate (instead of cocoa)? Why do all vanilla recipes require liquid vanilla and not the far superior vanilla bean pod? Why do fruit recipes call for canned, rather than fresh fruit? Why does cherry ice cream call for cherry syrup, when a fresh cherry's natural juices make the best syrup you can buy? I could go on and on. If you're getting started in ice cream making this book is a good start. If not, go elsewhere. BTW, I'm still looking for the ice cream bible so if anyone has recommendations... Richard
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Summary: Inspiring
Review: Fun, easy, very good recipes! I've made a new recipe everyday for the last four days. It's that easy and ADDICTIVE! I only wish for more low-fat recipes. Recipes are on the sweet side so adjust to your own taste. Try the Grapefruit Sorbet! Sheer Ecstasy! The most important book you need to read this summer!
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Summary: YUMMY
Review: Great recipe's, great for someone just starting (like me) and I can also see where if you had made lots of ice cream before that this would be helpful with a few different recipes.
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Summary: Great starter book
Review: Having just gotten a Cuisinart ice cream maker..., I was looking for a cookbook that would get me started on the road to making great ice cream. This is the book. The ingredients are readily available and the instructions are clear. In fact, the instructions are pretty repetitious; once you've got the basics, it's primarily the ingredients that vary. Having made four ice creams for a party, I know what changes I want to try next time. For example, the book recommends using whole coffee beans for the coffee ice cream. I'm going to try cracking the beans slightly so that more coffee flavor can come through, but still be large enough to be "strainable." FYI, the ice creams were the hit of the party, particularly the over-cooked, over-frozen chocolate custard that ended up tasting like chocolate fudge. It was the first receipe I made and I wasn't sure how thick "til it thickens" should be. I ended up having to force it through a sieve. When I froze it, I let it go too long before checking and the mass had wrapped itself around the stirrer and peeled away from the cold freezer bowl. However, it still tasted great! Even when you mess up, this book gives you a good grounding in the basics, is easy to follow and encourages you to experiment with its long lists of variations on the different receipes. Have fun!
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