ice cream results

[geekchick]

Not bad. Not as stunningly wonderful as I'd hoped, but definitely not bad for a first attempt and some guesstimation. There's something slightly off-balance in it, perhaps next time an adjustment to the saffron amount. Or maybe next time I'll just make vanilla/rosewater instead. =)

I went with the basic ice cream base recipe that came with my ice cream maker:

1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups heavy cream

Warm the milk in a small pan. Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a separate bowl. Slowly add the warm milk to sugar mixture, continuing to whisk. Pour mixture back into the pan and heat slowly until thickened, stirring constantly (do not boil). When thickened, remove the mixture from the heat and let it cool to room temperature.

While I was heating the mixture, I added somewhere between an eighth- and a quarter-teaspoon of saffron powder to it (using the eyeball method). Once the mixture had cooled sufficiently, I added two tablespoons of rosewater, then the two cups of heavy cream, stirred, and then froze it.

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[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm. :)

[geekchick]

It's not bad, but your kids would hate it. =) Somehow I doubt C. will eat any either, since there's no chocolate involved.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

You might think of adding just a touch of vanilla (perhaps some vanilla sugar) to it, to give a bit more bottom to the saffron.

Or you might look for a recipe for kulfi... lessee


5.Kulfi:
Ingredients: Serves-16-18
2 litres whole milk,1 tin condensed milk,2 tbsp(30g)corn flour,8-10 almonds(chopped fine),8-10 pistachios(chopped fine),5-6 cardamoms(powdered),a few strands saffron,2-3 drops rose water,2-3 drops almond essence.

Method:
In a heavy bottomed pan boil milk for 10minutes.Add the condensed milk and keep stirring till it thickens.Mix 2 tbsp cornflour in half cup cold milk to a smooth paste and add it to the milk mixture.Keep stirring till it is thick.Remove from heat.Add almond essence,rose water,almonds,pistachios and cardamom powder.Lightly roast the saffron and soak in a little milk.Add it to the Kulfi mixture and mix well.Keep aside to cool.Transfer the mixture into kulfi moulds.You can fill about 16-18 kulfi moulds with this mixture .Keep these moulds in the freezer to set.

If you leave out the pistachios, and the rosewater, and the cardomom, and up the saffron, you ought to get something interesting.

I think ice creams are scalable, so you ought to be able to make it for less than 16. Me, I love kulfi, and would probably make all of it, and then scarf it in the next week.

TK

[geekchick]

Hm, I pulled out the vanilla but decided not to use it, next time perhaps I'll add some. And some pistachios. Still, I think it turned out pretty well all things considered.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

You measured the saffron with your eyeball? Didn't that burn? *gd&r*

Sounds like it might be worth a try, if we can find rosewater in our neck of the woods.

[geekchick]

Sounds like it might be worth a try, if we can find rosewater in our neck of the woods.

Check for Middle Eastern groceries, odds are good that they'll have it.