Ice Cream by request and negotiation

[dsrtao]

Z wants "candy ice cream". After extensive deliberations, presentations, negotiations, rejections, substitutions, and inspirations, we are trying the following:

3 cups half-and-half
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp fresh orange juice

and solids:
the zest of the orange, chocolate chips, white chips, and 5 mini-Baby-Ruth bars, chopped.

Comments

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

I think this is how Ben and Jerry got their start...

[dsrtao]

No, they actually took a mail-order correspondence course in ice-cream making!

[dsrtao]

Note for future: orange-zest and vanilla is a good combination. Chocolate goes well with it. Skip the Baby Ruth bars.

flavors

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

Actually I was thinking of your inventing new flavor combinations. I think Ben and Jerry have a special dept devoted to just this activity.

When I was a kid I used to like the fruit flavors, I don't see them any more. Howard Johnson had a nice black raspberry. Another favorite of mine was peach.

You don't seem to have tried these (or at least not mentioned them). Banana and nectarine might be interesting as well.

The nice thing about home made fruit flavored ice cream is you don't have to worry about long term fruit stability the way commercial makers do so you can try fragile fruits.

Re: flavors

[dsrtao]

Breyer's does black raspberry, peach, and strawberry. I think their peach is OK, but kind of muted. I am struck by the idea of a peach-orange combination, perhaps as a sorbet or sherbet.

We're moving towards apple season again -- I've never had an apple ice cream that I really liked; maybe I could do that. I'm thinking of cinnamon, too, as a separate flavor. Cinnamon ice cream over Apple Brown Betty sounds like a good move.

I also want to try a smooth peanut butter ice cream. The vanilla-orange base for Z's candy ice cream is worth experimenting with by itself.

Food for thought

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

Tomatoes are a fruit, hence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24food-t.html