Ice Cream

[dsrtao]

Coffee

Mostly a repeat of the first or second flavor we ever made.

8 oz coffee beans
1 quart half-and-half
1 cup whole milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
a healthy glug of Godiva's chocolate liqueur

Grind the roasted coffee beans finely. Soak them in the whole milk for at least 24 hours. Then add the half-and-half and soak for another 30 hours. Strain out the coffee bean fragments, shake vigorously with sugar, salt, vanilla and liqueur, then apply ice cream machine technology.

Comments

[dsrtao]

Because I'm brewing the coffee in the milk, so I don't have to water down the end product. Cold-brewing coffee takes longer, but produces all of the complex taste with very little acidity. I'm also finding that I vastly prefer uncooked (Philadelphia-style) ice creams to cooked (French-style) ice creams. No eggs, no custard step, strong pure tastes.

Most commercial ice cream is now so flat and boring that I don't want to eat it. Ben and Jerry's is still good.