Frozen Dessert cookbook referral wanted

[jtphjl]

I am putting together a gift basket that includes a Cuisinart Ice-cream maker. I welcome recommendations for cookbooks!

This is not my area at all!

THANKS!

Jan

[Merridith]

There are two simple books for beginners with lots of good flavor combos:

 

The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

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[JoNorvelleWalker]

Interestingly I was asked for my recommendation today at work.  I suggested The Perfect Scoop and eGullet.org.

[Anna N]

 I own a Williams-Sonoma ice cream book that I find quite good.  

[oferl]

As mentioned, the perfect scoop is the perfect beginners book for home ice cream, Sweet cream and sugar cones from B-Rite creamery is not bad either,

fewer but solid basic recipes. For higher level of home gelato - Gelato Messina is a great book.

[Yiannos]

On 7/22/2016 at 11:50 AM, Merridith said:

There are two simple books for beginners with lots of good flavor combos:

 

The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

 

 

I have made lots of ice cream from both of these books, and I think they compliment each other really well. I like the Perfect Scoop for really excellent examples most of the classic flavors you'd expect to find in an ice cream book. The custard-based recipes are especially amazing in flavor and texture. The Jeni's book is great too in it's own way, I like that most of the recipes can be whipped up in an afternoon if you have the ingredients, and while she does have recipes for say chocolate and vanilla, a lot of the others use some interesting flavor combinations and techniques to expand on the really delicious "standards" you find in the Lebovitz book. I bounce back and forth between these two more than any others during the summer. 

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[jtphjl]

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

Jan

 

[wozard]

A bit late, but I have a couple of extra reccomendations... The Ample Hills Creamery book, and also Ice Creams, Sorbets, and Gelati by Caroline and Robin Weir - aside from being an absolute tome of all kinds of frozen desserts (including bombes, frozen mousses, kulfi etc), it includes a lot of extra info about the history and science of frozen desserts.

 

Ample Hills Creamery: Secrets and Stories from Brooklyn’s Favorite Ice Cream Shop

Ice Creams, Sorbets and Gelati: The Definitive Guide 

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[chromedome]

...and if you get really obsessed after putting this gift basket together, Elizabeth David's final (posthumous) work, Harvest of the Cold Months, is a deeply interesting history of the evolution of frozen desserts.