【Dessert Encyclopedia】Dessert 2 - Ice Cream Ice-cream

Tangguoya's dessert today is--ice cream!

Ice cream - also known as ice cream, ice cream, cone, is a frozen dessert. The main ingredients are fresh cream (Cream), sugar and milk or condensed milk, and different ingredients will be added according to different tastes. It can be eaten alone or with Eat with other desserts or cookies.

 Dessert types: Dessert main ingredients: fresh cream, sugar, milk or condensed milk, flavor ingredients (such as vanilla extract, chocolate, peanut butter, etc.)

Ease of Baking for Beginners : ★

Recipe in short (ice cream maker method): Heat cream, sugar and milk to a slight boil, remove from heat. Add vanilla extract or other flavored ingredients. Let them cool down for at least 2 hours. Put in ice cream maker, According to the instruction operation, done!

Recipe in short (no ice cream maker method): Whip the whipped cream with a whisk, add condensed milk and vanilla extract/other flavor ingredients. Put them in an airtight container, put them in the freezer for 4-6 hours, and you're done!

Ice cream can be regarded as the king of desserts, in addition to being eaten directly as a dessert, it also feels that any other dessert can be super attractive and super delicious when added with ice cream, such as waffles, bread, or even shaved ice or drinks. inside.

Ice cream is a dessert that adults, children, men, women and children love to eat. I think there should be no one who doesn't like ice cream, right? It is also a dessert that can be eaten at any time, place and climate. A year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, warm and hot Needless to say, in spring and summer, it is very suitable to eat ice cream to cool off the heat; in cold autumn and winter, you can also eat it for fun.

Here in New Zealand, I observed that there are always people picking ice cream in front of the ice cream refrigerator in the supermarket, even though it is obviously cold or winter. I also heard from a friend who gave birth to a baby in the hospital here. One day, the hospital added ice cream to the postpartum meal?! It is really different from the concept of oriental people who should not touch cold food after childbirth and have confinement!

Origin of ice cream

There are two theories about the origin of ice cream:

1. From the time of the ancient Roman Empire - when the emperor was in the heat of the summer, his chef retrieved the unmelted ice and snow from the mountains, and stirred it with honey and fruit to quench his thirst. It is said that this kind of ice and snow + honey and fruit is the earliest ice cream.

2. From the Tang Dynasty in China - At that time, the emperor had already enjoyed "frozen milk cake" made from fermented milk and goat milk and then added with flour. By the 13th century, the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo was traveling around China , The method of making milk into ice was brought back to Italy, and ice cream has spread in Europe since then.

elements of ice cream

Looking at ice cream from a scientific point of view, its basic raw material is water, and water forms hard ice crystals (ice crystals). The size of ice crystals is the factor that affects the taste of ice cream. Some other elements to help enhance the taste.

1. Fat - yes, in fact, in addition to water, fat is the second main ingredient in such a delicious ice cream. Fresh cream is the fat in ice cream. Fat molecules will be sandwiched between water molecules to prevent water molecules from forming large ice crystals.
2. Sugar - Sugar dissolves in water to become syrup, and the freezing point of syrup is lower than that of water. Therefore, the thicker the syrup, the lower the freezing point, and the lower the temperature required for water molecules to form large ice crystals.
3. Air - When making ice cream, the churning action will allow air to enter the ice cream. The texture of ice cream enriched with air will be fluffy and softer, and it will melt faster. General ice cream can have an overrun rate as high as 50% to 90%, while some advanced The air content of ice cream will be less, the expansion rate can be as low as 25%, and the flavor will be more intense.
4. Storage temperature - the lower the temperature of ice cream storage, the harder it will be, and the higher the temperature, the softer it will be. So the storage temperature will also affect the taste of the ice cream.

Types of ice cream

• Hard Ice Cream - This is the most common, frozen ice cream that we usually buy in supermarkets. This type of ice cream contains >10% fat and high sweetness (12-16%), and usually has a variety of taste.

• Soft-Serve Soft Ice Cream - This type of ice cream is what we often eat in M brand fast food restaurants. When it is sold, the liquid ice cream in the machine is instantly frozen by a special machine. As the name suggests, this kind of ice cream tastes better Soft because it contains more air than regular ice cream.

• Gelato Gelato-Gelato is a relatively high-end ice cream. It has less fat content than ordinary ice cream, because less fresh cream is used and more milk is used. Therefore, the milk flavor will be very rich. In addition, , Because the stirring speed is slower and the air content is lower during production, the taste is tighter. Gelato, which has a lower fat content and air content, uses a higher storage temperature to maintain its soft taste.

• Sorbet sorbet - is made with fresh fruit puree or juice and sugar, so there is no dairy.

• Sherbet Juice Milk Ice - Simply put, Sherbet is between Ice cream and Sorbet. Although the main ingredient is fruit juice, dairy products such as milk and cream are also added.

• French Ice Cream - In addition to cream and milk, French ice cream will also add egg yolks, so the taste will be more viscous.

• Frozen Yogurt Yogurt Ice Cream (Fro-yo for short) - This type of ice cream uses yogurt instead of cream, so the fat content is relatively low, it also contains lactic acid bacteria, and the sweetness is not high.

• Frozen Custard Frozen Cream - These ice creams have egg yolks like French ice cream (and >1.4%), and like soft serve ice cream, they are frozen before serving, so they are very soft.

• Turkish Ice Cream - I believe everyone knows this Turkish ice cream with a special way of selling it, right? The boss will have interesting interactions with customers during the process of making ice cream, so that customers think that when the boss wants to give ice cream, they stop Play other tricks. The biggest feature of this ice cream is that in addition to cream and sugar, an ingredient called orchid powder is added. The reason why it sticks back. In addition, the orchid powder is also the reason why the Turkish ice cream does not melt so quickly.

Writing this, I really want to eat a little bit of every kind of ice cream, is it the same for you?

But it's a cold winter here, so if I'm afraid of the cold, I'd better wait until summer to eat it.

Today, I won't talk about the calories of ice cream, but everyone still has to be appropriate and restrained not to eat too much, after all, we also know the main ingredients of ice cream above :)

So today's sharing of Tangguowu is here, thank you very much for your patience to read here. I hope this article makes you know more about this dessert that everyone can't resist - ice cream~ ^^

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