Product Description

The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen desserts -- but after acquainting yourself with this book's hundreds of tempting concoctions, you'll want to use it every day of the year. With over 500 recipes, author Bruce Weinstein has put together the most comprehensive cookbook of its kind, covering just about every conceivable flavor of ice cream, sorbet, and granita; dozens of different recipes for shakes, malts, and other cold drinks; how to make your own ice cream cones; and toppings galore.

If you ever worried that you might not get full use out of your ice-cream maker, cast your doubts aside. Ice cream recipes feature such unusual flavors as lavender, chestnut, rhubarb, and Earl Grey tea. Even Weinstein's vanilla ice cream is anything but plain, with variations like Vanilla Crunch, Vanilla Rose, and Vanilla Cracker Jack. There is also a plethora of light, refreshing recipes for sorbets and granitas, with flavors like Apple Chardonnay, Coconut, and Kiwi. Top everything off with the author's recipes forhomemade sauces. Whether it's a special event or a midnight snack, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has what you need to make any occasion a little sweeter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42766 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-02
• Released on: 1999-05-19
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Weinstein is a man who takes his treats seriously. Although his instructions are sometimes too sober for the subject matter and require some commitment, the ice creams, sorbets, sweet and savory granitas, toppings and drinks are served up with flair. There are roughly 70 recipes for ice cream, each with a number of variations, and several dozen more for sorbets. On the conservative end are four recipes for plain old vanilla and three for chocolate. For the sophisticate, there are ice creams flavored with thyme, lavender and Earl Grey tea, as well as tempting varieties using less common fruits such as fig, passion fruit, mango and rhubarb. Mix-in ideas abound with such concoctions as Ginger Ice Cream with bits of candied chestnuts, Classic Mint Chip with mini chocolate chips or Cashew Ice Cream topped with Trail Mix made by adding coconut, sunflower seeds and raisins. Weinstein even offers main course ideas: How about floating a scoop of avocado in a gazpacho soup or freeing borscht into a granita? To top things off, he provides recipes for hot fudge and other toppings, as well as for black cows and sodas that will turn any kitchen into a soda fountain. July)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Here are recipes for just about every ice cream imaginable, from four different versions of plain old vanilla to Avocado Ice Cream (it's really more of a chilled guacamole served as a garnish for gazpacho). Weinstein includes dozens of basic recipes for ice creams, sorbets, and granitas, with innumerable variations, along with sodas and shakes, hot fudge and other toppings, and even homemade ice cream cones. Recommended for most collections.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are the creators of the ten-volume Ultimate cookbook series for Morrow. They have also written Cooking for Two and Great Grilling. They are contributing editors to Eating Well magazine, have columns in Today's Health and Wellness and on weightwatchers.com, and are part of Dave Durian's Morning Team on WBAL in Baltimore. They write regularly for Cooking Light, Relish, Gourmet, Wine Spectator, Weight Watchers, Cooking Pleasures, and the New York Times. They do all this in 650 square feet of Manhattan real estate.

Customer Reviews

The Ice Cream Encyclopedia
This book has the widest selection of good standard recipes, as well as new imaginative ones, including frozen yogurt. I highly recommend it.

There is problem with Kindle edition
The recipes in the book are interesting, but the Kindle edition is missing the list of ingredient with their quintiles that one would need to make any of the recipes. A glitch perhaps?

the ultimate ice cream book
Enjoyed this book well worth having in your kitchen.It covered so much more then just making ice cream.Lots of fun testing new recipes and the variations. THANKS