Metropolitan Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the flavors
Prepare one-half gallon rich cream, color with chocolate, flavor with vanilla to taste.
Prepare one-half gallon cream, color with chocolate, flavor with rose.
Prepare one-half gallon cream, flavor with lemon.
Freeze and layer
Freeze each mixture separately.
Place the frozen mixtures in a mold, alternating layers of each until filled.
Put the mold on ice and freeze again.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Rich cream
- Supplies fat that makes the frozen mixture rich and smooth.
- Cream
- Supplies fat that gives the frozen mixture a smooth, creamy texture.
- Chocolate (in the method)
- Colors the mixtures and adds a cocoa flavor.
- Vanilla (in the method)
- Adds a warm, aromatic flavor to one layer.
- Rose (in the method)
- Adds a floral aroma to one layer.
- Lemon (in the method)
- Adds a bright, acidic citrus flavor to one layer.
The step that matters
Freeze each mixture separately. Each flavor must be firm before layering, so the layers stay distinct instead of blending into one another when alternated in the mold.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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