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Sunday, August 5. 2018

Lemon Ice Cream

Summertime. You need an ice cream machine. The one in the photo makes 2 quarts of ice cream, frozen yoghurt, or gelato.


Here's your recipe for Lemon Ice Cream.


Ice cream was invented in Italy. By the way, what's the difference between gelato and ice cream? 


My favorite gelato is hazelnut. My favorite ice cream has always been coffee, but I do like that caramel-sea salt flavor too.


What's your favorite flavor of ice cream or gelato?


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 13:34 | Comments (17) | Trackbacks (0)

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Not one, but three flavors, as in the Banana Split, or if that can not be obtained, the Tin Roof.
#1 Oldblood on 2018-08-05 13:35 (Reply)
Oh, no, you don't need a fancy ice cream machine, you don't want a fancy ice cream machine. No, what you need is one of the old-fashioned hand-cranked ice cream machines. Homemade ice cream of a summer's evening is a special treat, make it a special occasion. Teach the little ones something about cooking, something about science, something about patience and diligence and hard work, something about appreciating life's little luxuries. I mean, what, you gonna unwrap a Hostess apple pie just like Grandma used to make to go with that ice cream or you gonna put that stuff on a slab of homemade brownies still warm out of the oven?
#2 Jerryskids on 2018-08-05 13:50 (Reply)
Best on the planet is just behind the Vatican at Old Bridge Gelateria. I'm partial to pistachio while the wife enjoyed amaretto. https://gelateriaoldbridge.com/
#3 sorenk on 2018-08-05 13:57 (Reply)
Amaretto? How bad can that be? Sheesh. Never had it. Need antoher Italy trip.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2018-08-05 14:10 (Reply)
OMG--Peppermint stick with bits of real peppermint candy. You only get it around the holidays. Top with hot fudge sauce.
#4 Apple Pie on 2018-08-05 15:28 (Reply)
A good vanilla is the best. Perhaps with homemade cholate sauce.
#5 Mark on 2018-08-05 16:18 (Reply)
Mandarin Chocolate sherbet (Baskin Robbins) and Mandarin Chocolate ice cream (Ben and Jerry's) are both long discontinued and both were sublime. Failing that, pistachio gelato or ice cream.
#6 Missy on 2018-08-05 17:11 (Reply)
Hazelnut and pistachio are my two standard gelato choices, although I have astonishing memories of a fresh, vivid tasting melon gelato from a Milanese master.

Favorite ice creams are black raspberry (very hard to find these days without added chocolate specks), peppermint stick, and peach. I make an excellent grapenut, and in PA Dutch country seek out the best teaberry ice cream I can find, it's rare to find it anywhere else.
#7 Dan D on 2018-08-05 18:41 (Reply)
What is teaberry?
#7.1 LP on 2018-08-07 15:28 (Reply)
Sorry to wander off-topic, but the least favorite happened several years ago when the neighbors made homemade ice cream and invited us over. We were sitting in the back yard. It was twilight, and everyone was just barely visible.
It was one of those southern summer evenings when bugs were flying everywhere. Suddenly, my neighbor asked his wife, "Honey, what kind of nut crunch ice cream is this?" "It's vanilla!" she said.
#8 Frank on 2018-08-05 21:33 (Reply)
My dad always encouraged me to hand churn ice cream; said it was a very important job. I guarded the ingredients, added the coarse salt, and turned that handle a lot! Ice cream flavors-peach as well as apple-vanilla and cherry. Washington State fruits. Nothing better in the summer.
#9 Northwestener on 2018-08-05 23:06 (Reply)
I"m with Bird Dog; Talenti's Sea Salt Caramel, with chunks of chocolate scattered throughout. Heaven! Plus, take your pick of any real Italian gelato.
#10 Annie on 2018-08-06 01:34 (Reply)
A few years ago I bought an ice cream machine and started making my own ice cream. It was delicious! I made more for my friends - they loved it!

Then I started getting fat from all that delicious ice cream. The fact that I was able to make EXACTLY the ice cream flavors I wanted was greatly increasing my consumption. So I had to give the ice cream maker away. Sometimes it is best to keep the means of production out of your own hands....
#11 JM01 on 2018-08-06 12:54 (Reply)
Apricot gelato, made with fruit from our tree.

Second fave, rhubarb sorbet, made from our rhubarb.
#12 sixtyville on 2018-08-06 12:58 (Reply)
Java Chip Starbucks
#13 Jak on 2018-08-06 17:44 (Reply)
Hand churned avocado ice cream once, wouldn't recommend.
#14 XRay on 2018-08-06 19:43 (Reply)
2 cups heavy cream
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla

Whip with electric mixer until it forms firm peaks. (more or less will either make it lighter or denser so it isn't critical. Place in freezer for at least four hours. Serve. You will be surprised at how good it tastes.
#15 OneGuy on 2018-08-06 21:34 (Reply)

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