Ice Cream Flavors
Vanilla, French vanilla, chocolate, chocolate chip, mint, strawberry,
blueberry, pistachio, peach, walnut, almond, butterscotch, butter pecan,
rocky road, moose tracks. The list of ice cream flavors and combinations
of flavors is endless, and when you make ice cream at home, that endless
list of combinations is limited only by the imaginations of you and your
family and friends.
When making ice cream with fruit, it is important to remember that
fruits like apples or pears don’t work as well as more fleshy fruits
like peaches, nectarines or berries. You can make ice cream with canned,
fresh or frozen fruit, but fresh fruit will give you the best results.
Ice cream is an international favorite. Although it was perfected in
the western hemisphere, ice cream took on a personality of its own. As
it was introduced to different cultures and traditions around the world,
all sorts of creative flavors emerged. In Asia, durian ice cream, made
with green beans is extremely popular. Other ice cream flavors, totally
unorthodox in the west became extremely popular in the east, such as red
bean ice cream and green tea ice cream. The basic recipe for these
unusual treats is the same as traditional ice cream, with the exception
of the ingredient that gives the flavor. Other ice cream flavors that
may be considered out of the ordinary are chili ice cream made with
fresh vanilla beans and chili powder and avocado green chili ice cream,
which is made with fresh limes, avocados and jalapeno peppers.
Variations on the basic American ice cream recipe include frozen
custard, perfected in France and the gelato, an Italian treat made with
fresh fruit or other ingredients like chocolate, nuts, or cookies.
Non-dairy gelato is said to have originated in southern Italy while the
north is known for gelato made with whole milk containing three to four
per cent butterfat. Gelato melts faster and its ingredients are not
homogenized, resulting in a product that contains less butterfat than
American ice cream.
No matter where you roam, ice cream will almost always on the menu.
The flavor choices may not be unfamiliar, but regardless of whether your
taste for ice cream leans toward the traditional or the daring, the
usual or the experimental, fruit or peppers, there’s an ice cream flavor
for every palate, and you’ll be certain to find one that pleases yours. |
