friederike's Reviews
Cookbook Reviews
Ice Cream Handbook
By Vicky Smallwood
D&S Books - 2005
I'm not too wild about this book. In all fairness, I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but it doesn't give any instructions for people don't own an ice cream machine (I can manage without specific instructions, but it just would have been nicer), but I especially dislike that most recipes require 'liquid glucose' without any explanation whatsoever what liquid glucose actually is (my bet is that if you dissolve sugar in a little water you will get, or at least come pretty close to liquid glucose). Add to that the amateurish quality photos...
On the plus side: it contains many interesting, more adventurous recipes. Buffalo Yoghurt Ice Cream with Brown Sugar, anyone? Liquorice Ice Cream? Caramallow Ice Cream, or Plum Pudding Ice Cream?
Edited to add:
It's summer and I looked through the book to see if I can make anything with all that ripe fruit we have at the moment. I was shocked to see that most recipes use canned fruit - canned peaches, canned plums, canned pears, dried and canned apricots - what about fresh fruit? I'm not making my own ice cream to have it contain industrially processed foods!