Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> Last night I made strawberry ice cream using the Donvier
> turn-the-handle-every-three-minutes unit. It was okay but it's a
> nuisance, albeit a minor one, to have to stand there during the waiting
> time (between turning the handle three times) and it may not have been
> as it should have been because I'd had the chiller container stored on
> its side (GASP!) in the freezer. Book said that could make for less
> success. Whatever.
>
> I just finished a batch of chocolate ice cream (chocolated by 1/2 cup of
> Hershey's syrup ‹ shoot me!) done in the Waring Ice Cream Parlor
> electric maker that requires salt and ice. The machine is 22 years old
> and likely unused in 18 years. It quit a couple times but then would go
> again. Might have to have Brother John The Fix-It Man have a look-see.
>
> Scoff if you will, but it's pretty tasty stuff -- heavy cream and half
> and half, no eggs, in this one, along with the chocolate and some
> vanilla bean-steeped cheap cognac passing as vanilla extract.
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> rec.food.cooking
> Preserved Fruit Administrator
> "Always in a jam. Never in a stew." - Evergene

OOOOH, is there any left???? <VBG> The ice creams sound delicious.
Thanks for sharing. I still intend to make that chocolate ice cream
using the recipe that has the cream cheese in it I'm in that 'when I
get around to it' thinking phase.

Sky, who wonders if a wee bit of cayenne in the chocolate ice cream
would be good?

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