Recipe: Berry Cool Cottage Cheese Ice Cream Magic

Berry Cool Cottage Cheese Ice Cream Magic

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Fun-Da-Mentals Kitchen Skills

• blend :

  to stir together two or more ingredients until just combined; blending is a gentler process than mixing.

• freeze :

  to lower the temperature of a liquid or solid food below its freezing point to change its properties or to preserve it.

• measure :

  to calculate the specific amount of an ingredient required using a measuring tool (like measuring cups or spoons).

History of Ice Cream!

• Ice cream is a frozen dessert made of cream or milk, a sweetener, and additional flavors, like vanilla, chocolate, or fruit. It may also be made with an egg custard base. Histories of frozen desserts abound. 
• The first frozen dessert may have originated in Persia in 550 BCE. A first-century Roman cookbook has recipes for desserts sprinkled with snow. During the Japanese Heian period (794-1185), shaved ice with sweet syrup was a summer treat for the nobility. 
• It became easier to make ice cream when it was discovered that freezing a dessert in ice with salt added would allow it to freeze more quickly. Salt lowers the freezing point of ice. "Kulfi," the traditional Indian ice cream created in the 16th century in Delhi, India, uses this salt and ice method. Eventually, sorbets and ice creams began to appear in Europe. The French started adding egg yolks to their ice cream recipes in the middle of the 18th century. They also added vanilla to ice cream.
• The first mention of ice cream in the American colonies was in a letter written by a guest of Maryland governor Thomas Bladen, who described the delicious ice cream with strawberries he had eaten at the governor's home. A recipe by Thomas Jefferson for vanilla ice cream is in the Library of Congress. In Philadelphia, Nancy Johnson, an inventor, patented the first hand-cranked ice cream churn, the Artificial Freezer, in 1843.
• Agnes Marshall, an English celebrity chef, cookbook author, and inventor, created a hand-cranked ice cream maker, Marshall's Patent Freezer, in 1885. She was known as the "queen of ices" and brought ice cream to ordinary people in England. She also suggested eating ice cream in an edible holder with her "cornets with cream" recipe (the cornet being a cone-shaped wafer made with almonds). 
• Italian ice cream, called "gelato," contains less butterfat than other ice creams. Frozen custard is a dense, rich ice cream made with egg yolks. Soft-serve ice cream is softer, more airy, and has less fat than regular or hard ice cream. It is usually dispensed in a swirl from a soft serve machine.
• Ice cream can be a solo dessert with or without toppings, like fruit syrups, hot fudge, candies, flaked coconut, cookies, and nuts. It is also part of other desserts and beverages, including ice cream cakes, cones, sandwiches, sundaes, banana splits, floats, and shakes.