Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Dessert Cookbook
I promise you once you make the investment in a decent ice cream machine, and this book, you will never want to buy that gooey, gummy crap they put in the 4L bucket again. How does this book stack up? Read on and find out!
This book is deceptively simple. There are three bases that you start with, and you add the ingredients as you see fit. In essence, the book could be broken down into a 10 page book. What this book has is the history of how Ben and Jerry came about making ice cream, and their philosophy on the art of ice cream making itself.
There have been a lot of reviews on this book, good and bad. The good? The ice cream “recipes” are really out of this world. I made the Mocha Chocolate Chip recipe today, and it kicks serious butt. The bad, in a lot of people’s perspective is the fact the recipes call for raw eggs.
What I never got is how people are so freaking scared when it comes to eggs. Samonella! Those eggs are gonna kill me they say.
Sure, if we were to throw the eggs shells and all into the blender, the latter fact might be true. Here is the deal: salmonella is usually transfered through the weakeness in an egg shell. So, buy up the good eggs, people. You will not be dissapointed. You eat mayo, right?
Shelf stable mayo contains super amounts of chemicals to make them just that. Would one guess that eating the raw eggs is worse than that?
Point is, this book is an easy read, and well worth the 14$ investment. If you have an uce cream maker, buy this book. You can get it from my store by clicking the link.
