Great Find: 'Iced' on Sale

You know it's your day when you go shopping for innocent things like lemons and then you come back from the grocery trip with a thick book that you got for P75 instead of P429.50. I got the book "Iced" which is a collection of around 180 ice cream recipes, from traditional vanilla ice cream, to Italian gelato, to more exotic recipes like wasabi ice cream and even our own 'halo-halo'.


The great thing is that these recipes don't exactly require that you have an ice cream maker! If you didn't know, you can make homemade ice cream without the machine. The book touches up on that, too, and I'll quote it here. Another good thing is that the ingredients here aren't uber rare, and that the measurements are written in grams and their cup equivalents. Couldn't anything be more convenient?

It was only 75 and it was pretty thick and heavy. And so many beautiful pictures!

Cappuccino ice cream cakes! Awesome. I want to try this out. They have a recipe for the cake and the ice cream.

Anyway, for those curious about homemade ice cream without needing an ice-cream maker, I quote the book:

If you don't own a machine, good ice cream can still be made. Put the chilled ice cream base into a large metal bowl that allows for room for expansion and freeze for about an hour and a half, or until the edges start to freeze. Using a wire whisk, or electric beaters set to slow speed, whisk the mixture to break up crystals and also aerate the mixture--these two processes are what a machine does mechanically and they are responsible for the soft, scoopable texture of the ice cream. Repeat this procedure at least twice more, freezing the ice cream for an hour and a half between beatings.

Each recipe had an instruction for what to do when you have an ice-cream maker, and for when you don't. This is a great book indeed. Will start making some homemade ice cream soon and will share them here when you do this.