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The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen desserts — but after acquainting yourself with this book’s hundreds of tempting concoctions, you’ll want to use it every day of the year. With over 500 recipes, author Bruce Weinstein has put together the most comprehensive cookbook of its kind, covering just about every conceivable flavor of ice cream, sorbet, and granita; dozens of different recipes for shakes, malts, and other cold drinks; how to make your own ice cream cones; and toppings galore.
If you ever worried that you might not get full use out of your ice-cream maker, cast your doubts aside. Ice cream recipes feature such unusual flavors as lavender, chestnut, rhubarb, and Earl Grey tea. Even Weinstein’s vanilla ice cream is anything but plain, with variations like Vanilla Crunch, Vanilla Rose, and Vanilla Cracker Jack. There is also a plethora of light, refreshing recipes for sorbets and granitas, with flavors like Apple Chardonnay, Coconut, and Kiwi. Top everything off with the author’s recipes forhomemade sauces. Whether it’s a special event or a midnight snack, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has what you need to make any occasion a little sweeter.
- The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen
- Trade paperback, 256 pages
- Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are the creators of the ten-volume Ultimate cookbook series for
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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.
Review by Dan for The Ultimate Ice Cream Book: Over 500 Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, Drinks, And More
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This is a recipe book that reads like your mother’s recipe cards: lists of ingredients and how to combine them, but nothing about the technique or the science of what you’re trying to make. You couldn’t find a better book of recipies for ice cream. But if you want to know the whys and hows of ice cream making, this is a poor excuse for a cookbook.Recipies, recipies, recipies!–not only for chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, but for corn, avocado, and oatmeal–this is certainly the right book for those looking for variety. Weinstein has done a fabulous job in assembling old-fashioned favorites as well as nouvelle experiments. His inventiveness of new flavors is as delightful as the astonishing accuracy with which he recreates ice cream parlour favorites.The problem I have with the book is that it’s extremely lacking in every other aspect you expect from a good cookbook. Weinstein never discusses the cooking and prep technique he presents. You’d think ice cream was impossible without a food processor, which he calls for in almost every recipe (but you can easily make these recipies without it). He never mentions why I must boil the milk and later strain the mixture (You don’t really, unless you’re using unpasturized milk). And why must I refrigerate the ice cream before putting it in the ice cream maker? (Okay, maybe that’s not so mysterious.) I also became suspicious when I found a recipe for choloclate ice cream (there are many) that calls for cocoa but never for salt. (Salt almost always improves the taste of cocoa and would have the added benefit of lowering the freezing point of your confection, helping it not to freeze solid if you cure it in the freezer.)Finally, dispite the impressive quantity of recipes, you won’t find a single one for gelato. In fact, Weinstein implies in his introduction that ice cream and gelato are basically the same. While it’s true they are both custards, gelato never contains cream, so the taste and texture is entirely different. But perhaps that’s a fair omission in a book on ice cream.The book seems to be written for people who want to make a fine frozen custard, but who would never make such a thing if they knew it was called that. Just do what the book says and no one will get hurt. You won’t really learn anything about what you’re cooking, but you won’t embarrass yourself either.
Review by H. Grove for The Ultimate Ice Cream Book: Over 500 Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, Drinks, And More
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Very few commercial ice creams can stand up to homemade. Oh, I know. I have my commercial favorites too. When you make your own, however, you’re in control of everything. Too sweet? Cut down the sugar a little. Too rich? Substitute half and half or milk for some of the cream. You want a flavor that doesn’t come in the stores? Then it’s time to bite the bullet and make your own.
You’ll find details on ice cream machines in this book, as well as the differences between (and pros and cons of) ice cream made with and without eggs, details on flavoring ice creams, and tips for making “mix-ins” (cookies, crackers, etc.) that’ll stay crunchy longer. You’ll even find three recipes for ice cream cones in here!This cookbook packs a lot of punch into a surprisingly small amount of space. Let’s use Pumpkin Ice Cream as an example. Below it you have four variations listed: Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream, Pumpkin Raisin Ice Cream, Pumpkin Rum Ice Cream, and Pumpkin Seed Ice Cream. Mr. Weinstein could have done this a number of ways. He could have printed up a new recipe for each variation. He could have left them out entirely. Or he could have put the traditional paragraph of “oh, and you could try adding this, and this, or this.” In the first case you pay more for a cookbook that could have been smaller. In the middle case, we would have been bereft of many extra fantastic recipes. In the last case, when we sat down to pick a recipe and make out our grocery list, we would have failed to read the last paragraph, and we’d eternally find ourselves saying “Oh, next time,” without ever making the variations. So this is PERFECT. I wish more cookbooks did this. The variations are 1-3 sentence quick directions, but easy to pick out and implement. They’re also listed as individual recipes in the index, so you won’t have trouble finding them if you lose them.
You’ll find a fantastic array of flavors. Apple Butter Ice Cream, for instance. Avocado Ice Cream, with a Gazpacho recipe to accompany it–I guess you can eat ice cream for dinner! The Banana Ice Cream and the Banana Ice Cream Philadelphia Style (no eggs) come with a stunning array of variations. When Mr. Weinstein suggests Bubble Gum Ice Cream, he even provides the toll-free number of a company that sells bubble gum flavoring! Now that’s service for you. The book also includes sorbets, granitas, toppings, and ice cream drinks.In all, this is the best ice cream book I’ve ever laid my hands on, and we have at least four such cookbooks. Mr. Weinstein has created a true treasure of ice cream creation, and deserves no less than a full five stars for his glorious work.
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I don’t usually share my thoughts about cookbooks that I buy, but I have to say that this book is truly addictive. When I first started making the ice creams in the book I stuck to the recipes that didn’t require eggs. The author calls them Philadelphia style, but my family calls them delicious. All the ingredients called for are fresh. Fresh berries, fresh peaches, fresh cream. I like it that the strawberry ice cream requires so few ingredients. But my husband grew up eating frozen custard so I decided to try a few of the recipes that required a little more cooking. Beat the eggs, add the sugar, beat in some flour or cornstarch to help thicken the custard, heat the milk – it scared me at first, I’m not a great cook. But I did it. The custard was rich and smooth. Then came the fresh fruit. We’re totally addicted. And it’s nice knowing that there’s nothing artificial going into our ice cream and frozen custards. I also like the fact that all the eggs we eat are being cooked first. After reading a few of the reviews here, I decided to try an experiment. So many people said they were staying away from the odd flavors, so I made some – sweet potato and green tea. We’re hooked. They’re so good. Someone else said you shouldn’t add flour to ice. I made the mint ice cream recipe from this book without adding the cornstarch as the recipe called for. The ice cream was icy, grainy is what my husband called it. So I made it again just as the recipe required and it was perfect and has become an instant staple in our freezer.
Review by Annie for The Ultimate Ice Cream Book: Over 500 Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, Drinks, And More
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The Ultimate Ice Cream Book is the only ice cream “cook book” you’ll ever need. The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains hundreds of recipes. The book begins with an introduction on the two different types of ice cream recipes (custard style-with eggs and Philadelphia style-no eggs), helpful information on ice cream machines, mix ins, and finally tips on drinks. After browsing through the introduction you will flip through so many pages of different flavors of ice cream you will have a hard time chosing which kind to make. There are recipes for bubble gum, banana, pineapple, peanut butter, key lime, and white chocolate ice creams just to name a few. Don’t let all the exotic flavors worry you. There are recipes for plain vanilla (4 recipes for vanilla in fact), chocolate, and strawberry. As if that weren’t enough, there are sorbet recipes, ice cream cone recipes, shake and drink recipes, plus sauce and topping recipes. There is even helpful information in the recipes for finding some of the ingredients. Take the bubble gum ice cream recipe. Have no idea where to find bubble gum flavor? Not a problem. They list a company along with their phone number where you may order bubble gum flavoring. You can’t go wrong with this ice cream book.