Recipes homemade ice cream: it's easier than it seems

Not everyone, even experienced cook, tried to make homemade ice cream at least once. And all because of a very widely believed that without a special device - morozhennitsa, this delicacy to prepare impossible. We will try to dispel this myth: making home-made ice cream can, and it's much easier than you think.

Presumably, the ice cream started to cook more than 4 thousand years ago, and his homeland is China, where it was served as dessert. Ancient ice cream was an ice and snow, which was mixed with pieces of fruit. Got ice cream, and ancient Greeks: at harvest time they were served chilled in a special way dairy products and juices regular ice cream and fruit ice in the modern sense. In Europe, ice cream appeared due to the famous traveler Marco Polo, who brought the recipe of this dessert from the East in the 14th century, for a long time it was very expensive and was served only in the homes of the most noble aristocrats.

The first recipe for ice cream was published in 1718 in London in the cookbook Mary the Ilz.

In our country, as well as Ukraine and Belarus, it is not surprising, ice cream has long been a national dish: milk was frozen and served in grated form with different additives. Modern version of the Goodies we have in the 18th century, reached the country due to the fashion for all things Western.

Today ice cream made in all parts of the world, it is one of the world's most popular desserts, recipes of which there are thousands. Among these many recipes describing the preparation of ice cream at home, so if you decided to make ice cream at home, you have to first choose which technology you are going to do, and technologies such hundreds. We will describe the simplest available to everyone the recipe - it will overpower even the children are so fond of this delicacy.

The recipe for making ice cream at home

Next we will focus on the preparation of the most popular types of ice - cream sundae, which to cool, in fact, is an English custard, cooked on the egg. Based on this recipe, you will be able mastered it, to prepare many other kinds of ice cream - chocolate, berry, fruit, etc.

Recipe cream

You will need: 1 litre cream 33%, 170 g of fructose or small sugar 8 egg yolks 1 vanilla pod or vanilla or vanilla sugar to taste, 1 teaspoon (for children) or 1-2 tbsp rum or brandy.

How to make ice cream sundae at home:

Step 1. Take a pot with a thick bottom and walls, pour in the cream, add the seeds from the vanilla pod or vanilla or vanilla sugar.

Step 2. Heat the cream, stirring constantly over moderate heat, without boiling.

Step 3. Beat egg yolks with sugar until light and shade mixtures, to acquire its dense structure (using an electric mixer, beat 6-8 min - when refluxing the mixture will be left on the surface long trail, it is ready).

Step 4. With constant stirring, a normal whisk to slowly pour the hot cream to the yolks with the sugar.

Step 5. Pour the mixture into the pan, over low heat stirring constantly with a spoon made of stainless steel or wooden spatula to cook it until thick, without boiling, otherwise it will exfoliate and nothing happens.

If you feel that the mixture is ready to boil, remove the pot from the stove and let the mixture cool, then continue heating.

Step 6. Thickened mass - it must remain on the blade, remove from heat, stir for another minute until it cools down a bit, then add the rum or brandy and how to mix.

Step 7. Pour the mixture into a plastic container, let it cool down completely, then remove it in the freezer for 6-8 hours. Every half an hour to get it and quickly stir the mixture with a spoon or mixer, so it turned into ice, then the ice cream will be soft and smooth. In total, stir ice cream need at least 5-6 times.

Step 8. Half an hour before feeding ice cream to move from freezing in the cooling Department.

For making creme brulee to the recipe, add 2 tbsp sugar and 3 tbsp cream, mix them with each other, heat until thick and light brown in color, type mixture in the bulk before freezing.

For making coffee ice cream, add to the recipe of 1.5 tbsp. of ground coffee, mix it with 4.5 tbsp water, bring to boil, filter, add the liquid into the bulk before freezing.

To prepare almond ice cream add to recipe 2 tbsp almond cleaned, scalded it, remove the shell, finely chop the nuts in the oven fry until brown, put in already frozen mixture during one of the shuffle.

This is the process of cooking the classic ice cream - vanilla ice cream. Following all the steps exactly, to cook a delicious soft ice cream can even a child - under the leadership of watchful adults, of course.

Prepare ice cream at home, you will be able to enjoy not only its wonderful taste, but also the lack of a variety of chemical additives, which store version is very, very much.

There are other ways to make homemade ice cream, which we will describe briefly. Don't forget about the basic principles of cooking this dessert, and any ice cream is tasty and tender:

• Always add the milk or cream mixture rum or brandy in a ratio of 50 g per 500 ml of the mixture - this trick will allow you to enjoy the soft and gentle ice cream, it is used by all professional ice cream;
• Move the ice cream from the freezer for half an hour before feeding it to the refrigeration compartment - it's a little soft, and the taste will be sweeter;
• Stir the ice cream every half hour when it is cold, otherwise it will turn into ice crystals - this allows you to replace monogenic, need to mix quickly with a spoon or mixer, so that the dessert is not melted;
• To cream or milk formula has not collapsed when cooking, cook it stirring constantly over very low heat, this can be done in a water bath, but the cooking time will increase several times.

Recipes for different homemade ice cream

Recipe dairy ice cream

You will need: 4 egg yolk, 2.5 cups milk, 1 Cup sugar, vanilla to taste.

How to make milk ice cream. Mix yolks with sifted sugar, add the vanilla and put the mixture in the pan, pour the hot milk on low heat to heat with constant stirring until the mixture thickens and the disappearance of the foam, remove from the stove. Filter the mixture through a sieve or cheesecloth, folded into several layers, allow to cool, then remove frozen in morozhennitsa or plastic container.

Recipe for berry ice cream

You will need: 1.5 kg of raspberries or other berries, 500 ml of milk, 500 grams of sugar, 0.5 lemon, vanilla.

How to make homemade berry ice cream. Berries to sort, wash, stretch to release the juice, strain the juice, mix with milk and lemon juice, add vanilla. Remove the mixture to cool in morozhennitsa or plastic container.

Prepare ice cream at home for the kids and all the other fans of this wonderful delicacy.