- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Grub Street; New edition edition (31 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1898697264
- ISBN-13: 978-1898697268
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 21 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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- #40 in Books > Food & Drink > Meals & Menus > Cheese & Dairy
- #99 in Books > Food & Drink > Meals & Menus > Desserts
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A collection of over 200 recipes from the familiar to the exotic including sorbets, gelatos, parfaits, spooms and ice-creams. Classic French, Italian and American ices are represented as well as those from Asia and the Middle East. The recipes cater for both adult and children's tastes. All are suitable for making with or without an ice-cream making machine. Every recipe is detailed and has been thoroughly tested. All measures are given in the US, imperial and metric.
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63 of 63 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is what it says: definitive, but delightfully so. There is barely an ingredient that does not have its own recipe: multiple, subtly different, versions from the old favourites - vanilla (9), chocolate (17) and strawberry (4) - to the exotic: gin and tonic, lychee and lime or rosewater sorbets; saffron, green tea or avocado ice-creams. No better recipes exist anywhere for the ultimate expresso coffee or brown bread ice-creams (I've had my share of disasters at both until I got this book). Alcohol in ice-cream is well explained, as are all the underlying scientific dimensions to freezing different types of mixture to create a perfectly balanced texture: neither grainy nor watery. There is a thoroughly researched and fascinating history of ice-cream making from the 18th Century, and of selling ice-creams in places as diverse as Glasgow, Paris and Baltimore. All ingredients and recipes are 'translated' for those ice-cream aficionados on both sides of the Atlantic to have no trouble making - whether your taste is for Cornish clotted cream, Scottish rhubarb or English stilton; or dulce de leche, spiced pumpkin or tequila,; whether you buy 'whipped' or 'heavy' cream, and use quarts or litres. More global ices are also well represented: a fail-safe kulfi, an excellent halva and a mai tai sorbet are examples. Over 200 recipes, and each one works a treat. This book is an ice-cream lover's ideal bedtime reading: a host of heavenly recipes to dream of, and then make and enjoy. Everyone with an ice-cream maker should buy this book; but all recipes explain how they can be made without. My most indispensible specialist food cook book, and possibly even the one book I'd take to my Desert Island on the grounds that if you can't have ice-cream you can at least think about it.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After the purchase of my new ice cream maker, I started to look around for some good books to get me going.
Most of the ice cream guides are slim volumes and packed with lots of full page colour photos - what a waste of money!
Ices:the Definitive Guide is drab by comparison but instead your money is spent on terrific and thorough content. Fully researched, well organised and covering all aspects, historical, technical and practical, this book is the launching pad for any competent ice cream and sorbet chef.
Most of the ice cream guides are slim volumes and packed with lots of full page colour photos - what a waste of money!
Ices:the Definitive Guide is drab by comparison but instead your money is spent on terrific and thorough content. Fully researched, well organised and covering all aspects, historical, technical and practical, this book is the launching pad for any competent ice cream and sorbet chef.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Since I bought this book three years ago, I have discovered an endless flow of wonderful recipes. I decided three years ago that I would make one recipe a week. In this way I would try out all of them in about four years. However, it has not turned out quite that way. The recipes are so good I keep returning to my favourite ones. One thing is for sure my friends adore it....
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Think twice before you ice!
This book is great for the ices expert and connoisseur, but little old starter me found it all a bit too much when I just wanted to make and eat! Read more
Published 11 months ago by bakingnetty
Great service
This was great service. The book looks hardly used and arrived promptly. I have already used it several times. Thank you. I highly recommend this seller!
Published 12 months ago by K. M. Abrahams
Ice Cream.......... This is what it's all about !!!
Wont repeat what everyone else has written. Recipes delicious,easy to make and even easier to eat.
Wonderful to read even if you don't want to make the ice cream (I dare you... Read more
Wonderful to read even if you don't want to make the ice cream (I dare you... Read more
Published 15 months ago by blueapple
A no-nonsense approach to ice cream making
Warning, this book does not contain any photographs. However, it does contain a wealth of period illustrations around the topic of ice cream, including a very interesting history... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2008 by Max
Good, but not great on organization.
This is a splendid book in every way except its organization. The whole subject of making ice cream, sorbet and similar desserts is covered in a thorough manner. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2008 by G. C. Hurrell
This *is* the definitive ice cream book!
I don't usually trust anything that calls itself indispensible or definitive, but this book really is, if you want to make a range of ice creams, sorbets, spooms, and the rest. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2008 by Ellie
Interesting read and fantastic recipes
I've actually read this book from cover to cover - and am still yet to make any ice cream! The first section of the book is very interesting, covering the history of ice cream... Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2007 by C. Clark
excellent guide ...
...to making ice cream. if your interested in making ice creams this is the first book you must buy, the recipies are easy to make and follow and the theory provided on ice creams... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2004 by R. Sultan
BRILLIANT
I wont re-write what has been written already.....but....this is an excellent book, I have made over 20 ices, all yummy! Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2004 by "red1shep"
A history book as much as a recipe book
As a trade association for those who make a living from making ice cream, it is not for us to encourage individuals to make ice cream at home, but we risk recommending this book... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2000
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