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Originally Posted by Chef Barrae It's a fairly traditional custard based ice cream mixture. Yes, you have to cook it or warm it enough so that the egg yolks thicken the cream and then you refrigerate it to cool for several hours and then pop into the ice cream maker. I've always loved the custard based ice creams. Great luxurious mouth feel and the taste is just rediculous! |
If you do all that, you may get smoother ice cream (or maybe one that doesn't get so hard in the freezer)--and will reduce your risk of getting salmonella, but doing that would drastically reduce how much ice cream gets made in the house. Mrs. ShottleBop whips up the mix, uses a Hamilton Beach ice cream maker that we bought for $25 at WalMart, and spoons it into individual plastic containers we picked up from the bargain bin at Walgreens. It's bricklike, but that just means it lasts longer when I sit down to have some--plus, the individual containers are automatic portion control. (Fresh from the machine, it's like soft-serve.)