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Saffron ice cream in Primrose Hill park
A complex series of events led Peter’s 1/2 gallon freezer to live in London for several months. This resulted in a reduction in Peter’s icecream making activities, since it takes quite a sizable gathering the polish off a 1 gallon freezer (or a heroic personal effort). So IÂ planned a trip to visit my lovely friends […]
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Rooibos and honey ice cream
After some elegant shipping arrangements the ice cream maker so kindly procured for me by the triple motion crew (see last post for detailed thanks) has finally made it to South Africa. Yippee! However, in order to get it here within my luggage allowance I had to co-opt some help in the form of my good […]
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Lemon Icecream
As Big D’s little S I have been subjected to freezing cold sessions at the crank for a number of years now. However, it’s only recently that I’ve warmed to the art of icecream making and decided to take the plunge and ask the triple motion crew to get me my own trusty machine (thanks go […]
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Triple motion reaches the Southern Hemisphere!
My wonderful, talented, intrepid Antarctic biologist sister was awarded a PhD by Stellenbosch University for being very clever and hard working. Hurray! My first thought (naturally) was “lets make a batch of icecream to celebrateâ€. So I threw the ½ gallon freezer in my bag and 12 hours of long haul flight hours later I […]
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Apple Ice Cream with Walnut Scones
The apple & cinnamon ice cream-scone combination: Â truly a winner. It was inspired by and amazing icecream experience I had in Italy with chocolate gelato in a brioche bun. Peter and I first tried it out when we made icecream for the great and good of the the UK documentary film community at the Sheffield […]
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Heretic litchi and lime sorbet
Charline, a friend of Céline’s, had planned a big party in her new flat on the 14th of February, partly to dance like crazy but also to relieve people from this indigestible tradition that is called Valentine’s Day. Charline is a connoisseur, she offered me a recipe book about ice cream (containing an interesting Calisson […]
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Tangerine Sorbet
By Jove, the blog is as rusted as the mechanism of our beloved machines. But it still works! I just wish other crankers would write more often. And I wish I could crank with them! When is the next meeting of the ice cream team? Anyway, I brought the machine home for the Christmas holidays […]
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Chocolate Ice Cream for the kiddies
We recently made a batch of Chocolate Gelato that was to be served to a 12-year-old girl. Knowing that the young ones among us are often less keen on super dark chocolate I reduced the cocoa powder to just 1/4 cup, hoping that would please her. Unfortunately it was still “too chocolatey and not creamy […]
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Whisky & Honey Ice Cream
Update: Click here for the updated Whisky and Honey Ice Cream recipe. While I insist to not have favourites, this recipe is certainly high on my list. So when my dad sent me a new one-gallon White Mountain freezer for my birthday, I knew how I had to inaugurate the new machine. We first made […]
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Peanut Butter Ice Cream
The goal of the perfect nut ice cream often seems elusive. Despite various efforts we do not seem to have technology capable of grinding nuts to the creamy texture we desire. Fortunately there is no shortage of smooth and creamy peanut butter available and we were able to make a fabulously rich ice cream. It’s […]
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