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COMMON ICE CREAM
Photo: Ian Dooley

COMMON ICE CREAM

5 ingredients 3 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

249
Calories
9g
Protein
14g
Fat
24g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Strawberry 1 cup (152g) 49

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a pint of cream
  • a pint of rich milk
  • a pound of powdered loaf-sugar
  • a quart of ripe strawberries squeezed through a linen
  • two table-spoonfuls of arrow-root powder

Directions

1

Split into pieces a vanilla bean, and boil it in a very little milk till the flavour is well extracted; then strain it. Mix two table-spoonfuls of arrow-root powder, or the same quantity of fine powdered starch, with just sufficient cold milk to make it a thin paste; rubbing it till quite smooth. Boil together a pint of cream and a pint of rich milk; and while boiling stir in the preparation of arrow-root, and the milk in which the vanilla has been boiled. When it has boiled hard, take it off, stir in half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar, and let it come to a boil again. Then strain it, and put it into a freezer placed in a tub that has a hole in the 'bottom to let-out the water; and surround the freezer on all sides with ice broken finely, and mixed with coarse salt. Beat the cream hard for half an hour. Then let it rest; occasionally taking off the cover, and scraping down with a long spoon the cream that slicks to the sides. When it is well frozen, transfer it to a mould; surround it with fresh salt and ice, and then freeze it over again.

2

If you wish to flavour it with lemon instead of vanilla, take a large lump of the sugar before you powder it, and rub it on the outside of a large lemon till the yellow is all rubbed off upon the sugar. Then, when the sugar is all powdered, mix with it the juice.

3

For strawberry ice cream, mix with the powdered sugar the juice of a quart of ripe strawberries squeezed through a linen.

By Eliza Leslie · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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