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Black Pepper Ice Cream

Just for fun, we sprinkled a bit of pepper on top, too!

Summer is definitely upon us. We’ve had quite a few days with the temperatures topping out in the low 100’s, and will be close to 110°F later this week. We need something to cool us off, so, we figured cool, creamy ice cream would do the trick. And, we immediately knew the flavor we wanted to try: black pepper. Yep, we planned to flavor our ice cream with nothing but black pepper, the same stuff you find in pepper grinders. How did we come up with that, seemingly unusual, idea?

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Thomas Keller’s Caramel Ice Cream

making ice cream

making ice cream
Any ice cream churn will do.

Sometimes we make a bunch of things that require only egg whites, and we’re left with a lot of egg yolks. Egg yolks are more difficult to deal with: they don’t freeze as well as the whites, and it seems as if there are fewer recipes available, so, we generally just make ice cream. We know, we know, but we suffer through, just for our fellow scratchers. This time we decided to test out the Caramel Ice Cream recipe from Thomas Keller’s cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home.

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Philadelphia-Style Cherry Ice Cream

churning ice cream

philadelphia cherry ice cream
By filling small cups, we can bring enough to share.

It’s supposed to be hot today. Very hot. We’re talking temperatures near 110°F, which is pretty darn hot. And we, fellow scratchers, will be out in the heat late this afternoon as part of volunteering for our usual Monday night walk (nope, the walk is never cancelled; it happens every Monday, regardless of the weather or holidays), so we need something to help us keep our cool. Real cool. Ice cream is just the thing.

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Philadelphia-Style Blueberry Ice Cream

philidelphia-style blueberry ice cream

Philidelphia-style blueberry ice cream
When life gives you blueberries, make ice cream!

We mentioned last Friday that our neighbors gave us a bunch of blueberries before going away on a trip. We knew that we’d be able to put them to good use, somehow, perhaps even to share with the volunteers at our weekly walk. After all, shouldn’t sharing be contagious? We think so, so we searched our archives and found this easy, probably the easiest, ice cream recipe.

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Meyer Lemon Ice Cream

meyer lemon ice cream

meyer lemon ice cream
Smooth and delicious!

Some things were just meant to be. Meyer Lemon Ice Cream is one of them. We’d decided on Monday to make a batch of Biscotti, so we searched high and low in the library stacks here in the Scratchin’ It reference department, and found one. On the very next page was a recipe for Meyer Lemon Ice Cream, and we thought, “that sounds nice and refreshing; we’ll have to keep it in mind for the next time we have Meyer lemons.” Well, the next day, there was a box of Meyer lemons as surplus at the CSA. We grabbed a half dozen with Meyer Lemon Ice Cream in mind. The next day was our usual shopping day, so we added half-and-half and heavy cream to the grocery list, and had everything needed.

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Egg-Less Chocolate Ice Cream (Philadelphia-Style)

philadelphia style chocolate ice cream

philadelphia style chocolate ice cream
Very, very, chocolate!

We need ice cream! Not for us, exactly, although we’ll be having a taste or two, but for a small luncheon that we put together. We decided on chocolate ice cream; in particular, an egg-less, or Philadelphia-style, ice cream. We’d tried vanilla in this style with great success, so we figured chocolate would be just as easy. Wrong!

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Fresh Cherry Ice Cream

fresh cherry ice cream

fresh cherry ice cream
Cool and refreshing!

Today’s temperatures are supposed to reach over 100°F here in the Old Pueblo; we need a way to keep our cool, and what better way to keep cool than with a bowl of ice cream? Made from scratch, of course. The only question is, “what flavor?” With all the stores offering the first cherries of the season, we answered that question in a flash. Now all we have to do is figure out how to make Fresh Cherry Ice Cream.

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