Originally Posted by Pam1111
Here is the recipe for generic vanilla ice cream and you can add strawberries, crushed pineapple, chocolate chips, pecans, and walnuts to create various wonderful flavors!
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup milk
Pinch of salt
Vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
Mix all together and pour into the frozen Cusinart bowl. Mix for 20 mins and at the last 5 mins add any thing you want to change the flavor!
Very easy but thebheavy whipping cream is 5 grams of fat per tablespoon. It is definitely delicious. I think I will try the sherbet by Arimuse.
oh, the sherbet is soooo easy. I meant to say: WHEN you use citrus fruit, add the zest to the syrup - you dont need to add it to any other fruit. I bought 10 limes for 1$, and the recipe was 3 limes, and 2 lemons, but didnt have lemons so used 5 limes (made about 1 cup of lime juice) WOW - even with 1 cup of sugar it was tart! so I think 3 limes would be fine. I have 5 limes left and bought 1 lemon, will squeeze all and make a double batch and freeze in 2 parts.
The orange was about 1 cup oj, some orange zest (I really tried to squeeze 1 fresh orange, but they're so danged expensive I ate it! lol)
What I think I'll do is test some batches by using less and less sugar. I dont mind a real tart flavor with citrus and other fruits may not be so tart. I just need enough sugar to keep the stuff from turning into ice cubes. They say splenda works like sugar so maybe it keeps things from freezing too hard, also. If I read some lowcalorie cartons at the store, if they list splenda as an ingredient, it might work fine.
I also bought a grapefruit, cus I love them, and I bet that would taste great as a sherbet. This comes out so creamy due to the egg white its almost liike icecream. I did make some ice cream before this; it took cream, it was very rich. Tasted great, but just way too rich for me - this sherbet is just perfect for its taste and "richness" sharet (oh, I want to make mango,watermelon and cantaloupe, too)