The wonderful world of ice cream (updated) (Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream and Dessert Book - Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield)

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Product:	Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream and Dessert Book - Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
Date:	02/01/02 (337 review reads)
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Advantages: lots of lovely recipes for ice-cream, great for all ages

Disadvantages: none

This interesting and mouth watering book was first printed by the Workman Publishing Company, Inc. in May 1987.

The book was designed and illustrated by Lyn Severance.

The price of the book is roughly £7 and it includes recipes for:

Sweet Cream Bases*

Ben and Jerry's "11 greatest hits"

Chocolate ice-creams

"Downtown Specials"

Cookies and Candies

Sorbets

"The bakery"

Sundaes and "Concoctions"

Sauces and

Drinks

* Sweet Cream Bases - Ice cream is basically a sweetened, flavoured, frozen dairy product made with cream and milk. The butterfat content of the dairy products makes the ice cream rich and creamy. Butterfat is found in differing amounts in heavy cream, light cream, half-and-half and milk. Ice cream also contains a proportion of nonfat solids (which are found in whole, skimmed and condensed milk) to give it body. Eggs may be added for even more richness. Sugar or honey sweetens it.

In it you can also find the story of how the mysterious but very well known pair started out in the ice-cream business. You can also read about Jerry Greenfield's ice-cream theory.

THE AMAZING ICE CREAM THEORY by JERRY GREENFIELD:

Before they started up their own ice cream business, Ben and Jerry visited a lot of ice cream parlours to get an idea of how other people's ice cream tasted, bought a few books and took a correspondance course in ice cream making. They learned two lessons straight away. First of all; you don't have to be a pro to make incredibly delicious ice cream. You just need the best ingrediants, great recipes, a devotion to quality, a dependable ice cream maker and a sense of adventure. Secondly, there's no such thing as an un-redeemingly bad patch of homemade ice cream. This is an undertaking when sucess is rampant and failures are few and far between. After ten
years behind the dasher, its Ben and Jerry's belief that if you start with the right stuff, get it cold enough and take care in what you do then you'll come out with something good.
The truth about ice cream history is that it is easy to make and there are no secrets. The main advantage to making your own ice cream is that you can put whatever you want into it and make it just the way you want.

In this most fascinating book, learn how to make your favourite flavours of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, or toppings to go with it. Learn of how these two men, Ben and Jerry, conquered all obstacles and became two of the most well known people of the ice-cream industry.
The Ben and Jerry's Ice-cream and dessert book, written by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield with Nancy J.Stevens, is available at most bookshops. If you choose to buy this book then it is found preferable to own, or buy, an ice-cream maker necessity.
Ben and Jerry can still be found making their strangely delicious flavours of ice-cream in Waterbury, Vermont in America.
Also, in this book, you can find revealed:

How to break "Heath" Bars* into perfect size chunks

How to add chunks so that they don't sink to the bottom

and why you must eat Honey flavoured ice-cream in one sitting.

Some new flavours included in the book are:

Orange dream cream

Chocolate chip cookie dough

Honey Apple Raisin Walnut

Peanut Butter Fudge Swirl

Chocolate Super Fudge Brownie

*Heath Bars - Hydroscopic ingrediants such as chopped up heath bars, readily take up moisture and tend to retain it.
Whenever you put them in ice cream, the will change its texture, usually for the better. By the same token, any hydroscopic ingrediant will get soft and moist and lose some of its crunch.
Heath bars have more hydroscopic than grape-nuts.
Heath bars are quite basically bars of toffee.


Some of the older, more well known flavours that you know and love are to be found in the book as well. Such as:

Heath Bar Crunch

Dastardly Mash

Fresh Georgia Peach

and Oreo Mint

Personally, my favourite Ben and Jerry's flavour is "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough".

You can also read about the "January White sale" that Ben and Jerry hold in America.

Quite simply, every January the temperature in Burlington hovers around 16 degrees above zero and the days get very, very short.
Thats when Ben and Jerry run their famous storewide "white" sale. Everything white gets marked down 10 per cent.

You can also visit the Ben and Jerry's Website. Just go to:

www.benandjerry.co.uk

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